... everybody else then they wouldn't have a verse to contribute and they wouldn't be remembered as anybody when they die. Everybody that Holden calls a phony in "Catcher in the Rye" like the actors and his roommate Stradlater sort of exemplify this type of boring and fake approach in life. Unfortunately, people like the boys from Dead Poet's society and Holden must pay for their defying actions. A main part ... of why Neil, one of the boys from Dead Poet's society kills himself, is a result ... , which like Holden's are atypical of his social class. Fortunately, despite being alienated, p...

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"The Catcher in the Rye," is a story told in first person by a seventeen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. The story basically consists of what Holden does between his expulsion from high school and when he returns home to tell his parents the bad news (which is the span of three days). This expulsion is not the first he has had, for he had been expelled at least a couple times before. However ... whom he only ended up talking to), gets beaten several times, and many other occurrences. I believe the author wrote this book to show how teenagers live, what's on their minds, and how they talk...

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In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Stalinger, there are many examples that symbolize and illustrate phoniness in our society. These examples show realistic events and scenarios of phoniness that play out in our day to day lives. The books viewpoints are demonstrated throughout many altering perspectives. From Holden's point of view, the whole world around him is phony and unrealistic, which differs from the actual phoniness that is unraveled throughout the novel, and lastly, an outlook ... night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman."( Page 63). Despite Anne being phony or not...

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Catcher in the Rye - Phoniness and the quest for innocence Holden Caulfield is an adolescent boy who is preoccupied in preserving the innocence of children. He does not want to lose that innocence because that would mean that he would have to enter the adult world and become "phony." He believes that all adults are phony, but that they cannot seem to see their phoniness. He wants to remain a child, to ... does realize that as they grow older, the innocence will diminish and they will, sooner or later, become phony. The only times that Holden is purely happy are when he is dealing with childre...

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... putting up this front and making is seem as though everything is okay. One of the reasons why Holden took the time to call Mrs. Marrow or talk to the girls at the bar is because he is missing something in his life. For example, from the essay "The Structure of The Catcher in the Rye" by Brian Way, "Holden's excitement (from just arriving in New York City) is the excitement of the fantasist: he is ... embarking on a dream which is both universally adolescent, and built into a contemporary ... ...

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From the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the youthful protagonist Holden Caufield, employs the word "phony" to describe the behavior of a number of characters including Mr. Spencer and Ossenburger, however it is not them who are"phony", it is the young main character. First, Mr. Spencer, Holden's ex- history teacher, is not described as phony, but according to the adolescent, his choice of words are. Secondly, according ... phony because "he probably just shoves the dead bodies in a bag and throws them in the river". As a result, Caufield feels that Ossenburger is phony because of his professi...

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In the book Catcher in the Rye the main character is Holden Caulfield. He is a teen- age boy who goes through some major changes. His life is taken over by isolation and depression. This is all caused by his attitude towards others, his failure to accept the world around him and his various obsessions with sex and alcohol. Holden is not able to survive in everyday society. He keeps failing at everything he ... also has an obsession with sex. Holden is a virgin, but he is very interested in sex, and in fact he spends much of the novel trying to lose his virginity. He feels strongly that sex s...

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In many instances Holden is simultaneously contradicting himself. He is both a hypocrite and a moralist. A part of him is condemns society for its corruptness yet he plays a part in the same materialistic crookedness. For example at the end of Chapter 15 he meets two nuns and all he focuses on are how displeasing they"re suitcases are. "I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases." (109) Holden is bothered by the fact that the nuns aren't wealthy and don't have enough money to ...

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Holden is not an unpopular person. He decides to isolate himself by declaring that everyone besides himself is a "phony". He wants to be close to someone, but he does not know how to communicate with people. Even though he thinks most people are "phonies" or "slobs," he still looks for and finds something good about everyone. He wants people to look past society and be their true selves, and he wants to do that also, but he does not want to be in complete isolation. He feels that the cause of phoniness is being in group situations and feeling like you need to be good enough for everyone else. ...

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... her. He makes the decision to stay to comfort Phoebe and to keep her from falling over the cliff by the rye field before her time. Phoebe is the light countering Holden's overwhelming dark depression. Her name is a species of bird known for flicking its tail and hopping about. Phoebe is skinny, "but a good skinny, a roller skate type of skinny," who is in constant motion- dancing, ... laughing, writing stories, talking about her friends. The word "phoebe" also means ... than if it were written out for the reader. Books cannot be judged by their covers; doing so would show phony qualiti...

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... is saying that he knows a famous author or that he has a brain tumor and his name is Rudolf. The person in the song doesn't use the word, but labels himself as a phony. Holden doesn't like phonies, but the irony is that he himself is one - like the speaker of the song. Also shared in the song and in Catcher in the Rye is the outsider motif. Holden feels that he is an outsider observing a world that he ... cannot decide to accept or reject. The singer repeatedly refers to himself being "on the outside". Finally ... ...

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