tally opposite from Jesus. Just one more example of Holden's total disregard of what is going on. Holden dislikes many people, places, and events all because of the phoniness surrounding them. Mollie Sandock says that "He feels a scathing, harrowing disgust for the "phoniness" he senses so acutely all around him. It makes him literally ill. He is repulsed not only by the insincerity and self promotion of the "phonies," "hot-shots," "jerks," "bastards," and "morons," but by the phoniness that is excellence corrupted"(966). Holden realizes all the flaws within others but he can not see them within himself. At the end of the novel he complains heavily about the fowl language written on walls where children can see it. Yet as Edward Corbett explains, "Holden's swearing is so habitual, so unintentional, so ritualistic that it takes on a quality of innocence. He is constantly seeking to appear older than he really is. His profanity is so much ingrained by habit. that he is wholly unaware of how rough his language is"(442). There were even a few
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