Even though he enjoyed the conversation, he worried about being
             asked if he was Catholic. He stated they "...would have liked it better if he were
             Catholic." This gives insight to his discomfort with being judged morally, and to his
             association of people of morals looking down on those who don't share them.
             In Holden's descriptions and thoughts, Salinger accomplished the most unique aspect of
             the story's point-of-view. Instead of using the popular - however overrated - style of
             well refined thoughts and flowery descriptions, Salinger describes things as they are
             perceived upon a first impression. Naturally the human mind does not instantly process
             first encounters or experiences into drawn out rhetorical metaphors. We must think
             about them first, relate and compare them to past experiences, then form associations.
             This is based on Jean Piaget theory of assimilating new situations, accommodating them
             with previous knowledge, then forming generalizations for understanding, called
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