Thus, to achieve the greatest knowledge of The Catcher in the Rye, the reader must examine the many levels of meaning associated with the character names. Salinger shows through the various character titles that people cannot be judged by their covers as doing so would show the phoniness that Holden detests and limit the reader’s ability to understand the implied meaning. The more we judge those that surround us, the more we bury ourselves in our own ignorance. Hence, The Catcher in the Rye serves as Salinger’s advice to people in which he implies that a person should not judge other people or things simply by what they see on the
