As a representative novel written by J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye expresses the aspects of Americans after the end of World War II who experienced the internal conflicts caused by their underlying mental exhaustion and materialism through the main character, Holden Caulfield. While hating and criticizing the pretentious aspects, falsehood, and hypocrisy of the older generation, he reveals the duplicity imitating those aspects of the contemporary people. Holden attempts to disclose himself in confusion and conflict on a borderline between his immature masculinity and the grown-up one. The masculinity sought by Holden plays a role in preserving and protecting the purity and chastity of children and women. However, Holden, who is suffering from the confusion by male aspects in the society, experiences the real life and recognizes that such masculinity would be limited and practically impossible to be achieved. After all, Holden's masculinity represents his identity. While it is important to educate young people who are supposed to go out into the world as their identity is not yet fully established and needs to help them from school and society, it needs to implant confidence and courage into the young people who have such problem with lacking in confidence like Holden. Also, it needs for those who have not yet established their identities to accept their existences as they are.