2. How does the subject of Holden and Phoebe's conversation suggest, as Mr. Steinberg does, that
adults are less plastic than children and adolescents? Do lawyers have to be as rigidly defined as they
are by Holden?

Holden talks about subject of the sympathetic understanding that the adolescents need.

Explanation:

The novel "Catcher" was written by Holden Caulfield which made him really famous and helped him gain name and fame.

The subject of Holden was the sympathetic understanding of the adolescents with the problems that they go through in their stage of growing up into an adults and the changes that they see in life. The novel also talked about nerve in America which was involved in a cold war.

to not go near anything hot