... in turn, embark on a journey that leads to both self-identification and maturation. The Narrator in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, are two such characters. In Bright Lights, Big City, the Narrator escapes family and marriage problems, ... are insecure, and, above all, people who are "phony." He feels that almost nobody is genuine, and that everybody, specifically adults, is "phony."" Holden applies the term "phony" to those who conform to society and have ulterior motives, which he explains to Pheobe when he contem...

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