ifice that must be made in such a transition is the loss of one’s innocence. Holden desperately wants to preserve this. Frost’s entire poem describes how nothing gold can stay, how “Nature’s first green is gold”, and how it’s “her hardest hue to hold”. He continues by saying, even the paradise of “Eden sank to grief” and the beautiful “dawn comes down to day”. Frost is saying that no matter what, nothing that is gold or precious can stay. So too with innocence, it is like gold because it is invaluable. According to Frost, nothing innocent can stay innocent forever, and there’s nothing to be done about it. After all is said and done, both Robert Frost and Holden Caulfield share their views of wanting to preserve certain things. They both want to make beautiful moments last forever, they both try to stop time in its tracks, and lastly they both desire to hold on to innocence. All of these factors come together to undoubtedly prove that both Frost and Caulfield have a desire to be a “catcher in the rye”. They want to stop all of these transitions. They want to keep that gold that can’t stay, they want to keep that leaf from subsiding to another leaf, and they want to preserve that innocence. Being a “catcher in the rye” in a sense, would allow them to do just this....
