This stops him from being able to hold friendships with people for instance when he meets up with Sally and everything is going great and he completely ruins the time they spent together with the ignorant things he says. ... A key example is his "date" with Sally Hayes he feels horrible after calling her an ass but he shouldn't have said it in the first place. ...

• Word Count: 752
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year-old boy who is trying to understand why the world is the way it is. Throughout his expedition, he meets several of what he calls, phonies, and he is traumatically exposed to the hypocrisy and the ugliness in the world. Holden spends a majority of the book, wanderi...

• Word Count: 2498
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School