Phoniess
"Phoniness" is the dominating theme in The Catcher in the Rye. Holden uses this word to describe everything that goes on around him. In Chapter 22, Holden talks about how adults are phonies and worse yet, they cannot see their own phoniness. Holden makes sure the readers know that he is a compulsive liar, and his lies are usually without reason; also they have the tendency to be cruel. As an example of his phoniness, he notes that one of his roommates was a brilliant whistler saying: "Naturally, I never told him that he was a terrific whistler. I mean, you don't just go up to somebody and say 'You're a terrific whistler.'" When Holden says things of this nature, he is sinking to the level of phoniness of everyone else around him. The title itself, The Catcher in the Rye, first appears in Chapter 16, when a child that Holden admires for walking in the street instead of on the sidewalk is singing a song, "Comin' Thro' the Rye." In Chapter 22, Phoebe and Holden are talking about what he wants to do with his life and replies with his "image" of a "catcher in the rye." He talks about how he would like to catch the children, who are innocent, in the rye, from going over the cliff, which leads into "knowledge" and inevitabl
She had a young boy with her, her child, he presumes, and the kid had to go to the bathroom. As a result, of seeing the F**K you written all over the museum, Holden realizes that who ever wrote it were kids. Holden yet again contradicts himself. This is shown when Holden goes to the movies. He first pulls the peak of his hunting cap over his eyes and shouts about being blind. This further gives the world the sense that he is pretending to be something that he is not. He feels that he is surrounded by hypocrites in a school filled with fakery. Holden Caufield, a character who always jumps to conclusions about people and their phoniness, can be labeled as a hypocrite because he exemplifies a phony himself. He is an inveterate liar; he frequently masquerades as someone he is not; he fulminates against foibles of which he himself is guilty; he frequently vents his spleen about his friends, despite the fact that he seems too be advocating the need for charity"(443). Their conversation continued during the next act. Most of the songs were either pretty dirty or in French too.
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