Obviously the character who noticeably evolves throughout the story would have to be Holden. Since it is written in first person the reader knows the most about him and understand what he's thinking or feeling. Holden is a very judgemental person who likes to comment on every little thing or person. Some would call it being brutally honest. He is understood to have an odd attitude towards sex, and finding all adults to be "phony". These issues are narrated as Holden goes through them. For most of the novel Holden tries to lose his virginity, but once the time presents himself when a teen prostitute comes to his hotel room, all he wanted was some company for his loneliness. By the end he realizes that sex should be kept for people who care for, and respect one another and not some meaningless event. Holden really demonstrated maturity as he comes to understand this.
As for his issues with finding almost all adults to be "phony", Holden judges everyone he meets and always points out something that is fake about them. He is obsessed with making conclusions about people and analyzing them. Not only is it rude, but it demonstrates how he feels he is never phony and how all children are so innocent. The way he perceives adults and the way they act, causes him to be afraid of growing up because he never wants to end up a "phony" just like everyone else. As the novel progresses he meets characters like the nuns who completely blow his mind because there is nothing fake about them. From this point on it seems as though Holden starts to view people differently and becomes okay with growing up as he see's that you don't have to end up that way and everything is okay.
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