Our main character Holden Caulfield at first appears to be having a conflict with society, but, upon closer examination, we see he is truly only at war with himself. Our story starts with Holden being kicked out of yet another school, this time Pencey Prep, for failing four classes. He is supposed to go home at Christmas Break and never return, however, things didn't work out like that. A altercation then takes place when Holden finds out that his roommate had sex with a girl named Jane Gallagher, who it becomes apparent that Holden loves. Holden loses the fight and grabs his bags and hunting hat and heads for the train station a few days early.
            
             One conflict is Holden deciding how to tell his parents that he was kicked out of Pencey. Another less obvious conflict is Holden dealing with the people around him without getting the urge to blow up a building. He is completely convinced that everyone in the world is a phony, except for his little sister Phoebe, Jane, and himself. Throughout the story, phony people plague him. These two problems connect when Holden is attempting to plan his future away from such phonies and do it without his parents finding out about Pencey.
            
             After he leaves Pencey, Holden takes a train to New York, where his only plans
             are to plan to make plans. He meets all sorts of people in New York, including a ditsy blonde named Bernice at the Lavender Room. He buys a hooker named Sunny from a guy named Maurice, but pays her just for talking. There's a mix-up about the payment, so Maurice beats him bloody. He goes to see a show with a girl named Sally Hayes and wants to run away with her, then decides she's phony, so he leaves her at a diner. He
            
             meets an old friend named Luce for drinks and ends up getting drunk and embarrassing himself by calling Sally.
            
             By this time, Holden is in a sate of despair with no money, so he sneaks into his parents' house to talk to Phoebe, who loans...