Holden is lonely. He had just got to New York and went straight to a phone booth to call someone. Holden was thinking to himself in the phone booth that “I left my bags right outside the booth so that I could watch them, but as soon as I was inside, I couldn’t think of anybody to call up” (Salinger 66). Holden was standing inside the phone booth wanting to call someone but he couldn’t think of anybody to call. This quote shows that he is lonely because if he had friends or a trusting family member, he would have called them. Since he can’t call his family because they don’t know he got kicked out of school, he has no one else to call. None of his friends are in New York or are willing to get up in the middle of the morning to talk to him. The
