HOLDEN

Honestly I don’t blame the kids at Pencey for not liking Holden; he appears to be a terrible person. I don’t see how he even had friends in the first place he always had something bad to say and doesn’t seem very friendly. But that’s the thing he only appears to be a very rude and mean but underneath you can tell that he isn’t. If you actually look at his thought you can that he’s just troubled. And that’s what I think this entire book is about, not about how Holden is this terrible person who doesn’t like anyone. I think it’s about how a boy is dealing with all the changes in his life. We get all upset about him calling people phony all the time we can’t really because I don’t think he even knows the difference anymore. He’s not a bad guy he just has issues. He’s doesn’t know how to move on and face the future so instead he just says it’s not real. He acts like a child we all see that we, we all know but that’s his way of getting through it. Holden’s been depressed for a really long time and he know that he’s not happy anymore, which is why I think we still acts like a kid. Think about it. When were the happiest times of his life? The happiest time was when he was a kid, before his brother Allie died, before D.B moved away, before he had a care in the world. Acting like a kid is his way of being in those times again, this is his way of grieving.