Since the beginning of the book you could tell that Holden was an overall sad person. He always separated himself. “I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game” (Salinger 3) while everyone else is in the game he's isolated, and watching people instead of connecting with them. It wasn't only Holden, who furthered himself from everyone. “The whole team ostracized me the whole way back. It was pretty funny, in a way.” (Salinger 3) It seems odd to me that someone would find being excluded comical. There was another time where Holden went to New York, and as soon as he arrived “[He] felt like giving somebody a buzz” (Salinger 59) He was there alone, and no one knew he was there. Again, isolation. Why would you go somewhere
