"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall... The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with...So they gave up looking" (Salinger 186). Many young adolescents and young adults have not matured properly and thus are stuck to find a balance between childhood and adulthood that many times can not be found. As in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, it is essential for adolescents to mature not only physically, but mentally, socially, and sexually, in order to function properly n society. Esther (from The Bell Jar) and Holden (from Catcher in the Rye) are two young people that have trouble passing the boundary between childhood and adulthood, upset over impurities and pressures from society that they slip...