rmer principal at Elkton Hills, a former school he attended. He calls Old Haas a phony and says that he put on a false image when he spoke to parents and this drove Holden crazy. Holden states "It makes me so depressed, I go crazy" (Salinger, pg. 14). Holden can't stand the fact that people put on fake images. He doesn't like phony people but wants a society in which everyone expresses himself or herself truthfully. However, even though Holden has a negative point of view of the society and calls everyone a phony, he himself is a phony because he also puts on a fake image when he meets someone he likes. An example of this occurs when he takes off from Pencey and is taking the subway to downtown New York. There he meets a women who happens to be Ernest Morrow's, a student at Pencey, mother. When she asks him what his name was, Holden answers "Rudolf Schmidt" (Salinger, pg. 54). He did this because he didn't feel like telling her his whole life story. He says, " I didn't feel like giving her my whole life history. Rudolf Schmidt was the name of the janitor of our dorm" (Salinger, pg.55). This shows that Holden was dishonest with the people he liked. He then regrets and infers "I liked her, though. I was beginning to feel sort of sorry I'd told her my name was Rudolf Schmidt"(Salinger, pg.56). On the other hand, Holden has a sensitive and innocent side. For instance, Holden buys Phoebe a record called "Little Shirley Bean" which was hard to find. He struggled to look for it all because he liked to see his sister, Phoebe happy, but he drops it and it breaks. He says "I damn near cried, it made me feel terrible...they weren't any good for anything, but I didn't feel like just throwing them away" (Salinger, pg.154). This quote expresses Holden's sentimental feels and innocence. It tells the reader that Holden is close to P...