At the beginning of the book Holden is passing his last few days at Pencey prep school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. It is a Saturday and the school is playing the last football game of the season against Saxon hall. Everybody was watching the game, 'you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win'. Of course Holden was not at the game he was just walking around on his own. He was seen as a loner just wandering aroun

When he is on the train and he comes across Mrs. Morrow he pretends to be someone else to entertain himself and forget about his own life. He says his name is 'Rudolf Schmidt' and he starts telling her how wonderful her son was when Holden really thought her son was ''the biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey''. He also tells her that he is out of Pencey early because he has to have an operation on his brain tumor. Mrs. Morrow really believes all of Holdens lies and in a way plays along in his game. In the book he calls lying ''shooting the old crap'' as if it was a recreational game. If Holden came across someone that did this to him he would immediately judge them and call them a ''phony''.

Holden has a very strange attitude towards society, he feels there is a lot of unfairness in the world. He thinks all adults are ''phonies'' and that it is important to protect children from becoming ''phony'' adults. He thought religion is vital and he believed in Jesus but he did not believe in the rest of it.

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Approximate Word count = 1128
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)