What frightens Holden continuously throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye?

Caulfield's primary fear throughout the novel concerns the inevitability of entering the
competitive world of adults. As a neurotic, hypercritical teenager with a traumatic past, Holden
desperately tries to cling onto his childhood innocence and avoid entering the world of adults.
Holden's fear of adulthood is expressed through his extreme cynicism, judgmental
nature,...