Holden finds the adult world very repulsive and phony. In chapter ten, when he is in the lavender room of Edmont, he makes several comments that support this. For example, he finds the band, which consists of adults "...putrid." Among this, he also states that the older guys in the lavender room were, "…mostly old and show-offy looking guys" As he looks around the room, Holden uses only negative emotive language to describe those around him. This illustrates how Holden finds the adult world, and all the people in it, a fake and undesirable place. Another example for Holden’s hatred towards phoniness is shown through a conversation with his English teacher Mr Spencer “one of the reasons I left Elkon Hills was because I was surrounded
