Holden is a terrible main character because he always lies and doesn't get along with almost all of the minor characters. His relationships with Stradlater, Mrs. Marrow, and Faith Cavendish especially prove his own deception and his own phoniness. In other words, he just doesn't get along with anyone, he lives for no reason, and he thinks everyone is phony ... either and because he lies about every detail about himself, he ends up being even phonier and more of a moron than her. Holden shows a lot of deception and phoniness towards Faith Cavendish as well. Holden uses her, trying to make her...

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... satanism. However, there are some publications that depict a more truthful view of the life and actions of pagans or witches. William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and Richard Cavendish's "The Black Arts" all have stereotypical falsehoods that tarnish the good work of these earth worshipers. Included in the sources of truthful depictions are Lady Sheba's "The Grimoire of Lady ... states that any form of divination or anything dealing with the occult is satanic. Sadly this is the popular view expressed by society. Cavendish presents a biased viewpo...

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... commands. In those circles where such superstitions are common, we will invariably find the inducement of a post-conversion, highly emotive religious experience involving so-called 'Spirit Baptism', tongues-speaking, faith-healing and, very often, the claimed expulsion of demons " all of which are usually generated by the powerful suggestions of an influential teacher. Because of the vast number of ... in combating indwelling sin. It is the ultimate form of escapism from the divinely-ordained, difficult and afflicted pathway of progressive sanctification, to go running off to the nearest...

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... was perpetrating in other word being "phony" every time he went out all GQ after using that filthy razor. Another instance is when he calls that girl in New York, Faith Cavendish, that Eddie Birdsell had brought to a dance at Princeton. Anyway he called her and she almost went off until Holden drooped Eddie's name. Then all of a sudden "she was getting ... as she processed "Eddie Birdsell from Princeton" she became so amicable. She most of thought that a friend of Eddie, from Princeton, most have been rich or at lest well off. Faith was all ready to hook up with him for a date until she...

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... sees a couple spit drinks in each other's faces and thinks he is both a "sex maniac" and doesn't understand sex at all. His obsession is shown when he calls Faith Cavendish, a promiscuous girl recommended to him by a boy he met at a party, and tries to make a date with her. The obscurity of all this is when he decides to get a prostitute ... ...

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... it was too late. Holden then took a taxi to an older hotel in which he received a rather "crummy" room. Once in his room, he called a girl by the name of Faith Cavendish. He was given her phone number, and when in conversation with her, he again seemed to be phony, acting suave and sophisticated, as he had done with the woman on ... ...

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... at the Edmont he looks through the lighted windows in the opposite block and notices quite a few peculiar things going on. He the decides to call a girl he knows called Faith Cavendish to arrange a date, but she couldn't that night and she offered to meet him the next day but he couldn't be bothered to wait, so they hang up without having ... ...

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