Avoidance Behaviors is a common pattern of avoiding or withdrawing from social conversation. In the movie “Good Will Hunting” Will tries to avoid people by staying away from them. Just like when Holden in the book The Catcher in the Rye. He avoids people by being mean to them and calling them phonies. Will tries to avoid people so he won't have to get in other people's lives thinking that he would ruin it for them. Holden just goes around and just calls everyone a phony for no reason because he just wants to avoid them. Will avoids his issues by not thinking of them whatsoever, but Holden avoids the adult world by blaming others for his issues and trying to show others in a bad mood. Will does not join his intelligence and his interest in
