Holden's obvious immaturity stretches into several different levels. One of the most prevalent of his immaturities is that he is uncomfortable with his sexuality. You can tell he is uncomfortable with this in the way he talks about sex and how girls affect him like the nuns, and waiting at the station. "Women kill me. They really do." (54)
Also, when Holden is faced with some sort of sexually challenging activity, he simply avoids dealing with it. A time when he was faced with one of these challenges was when he thought he was "sexy" (95), he was actually quite depressed, so his ultimate lonliness kicked in because he just wanted to talk.
Another time when Holden maybe overreacts too much because he THOUGHT there may be some sort of possibly sexual content coming from his ex- English teacher, Mr. Antolini, touched his head while he was sleeping. Instead of thinking this gesture was fatherly, Holden automatically thought it may be a more inapropriate situation.
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