Holden Caulfield Character Traits

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In the story “I’m a Fool”, a racehorse swipe meets a girl and lies to her concerning who he is and what he does. He then realizes that he can never tell a girl like her the truth and spends the rest of the story talking about how he is a fool. But if his character is examined closely, it is revealed that throughout the story, his character does not change.
His first major trait is deceitfulness. His deceitfulness is what this story is really about; how he made a fool of himself. His deceitfulness comes up many times in the book so often that if Holden Caulfield met him he would say; That was the biggest phony I've ever seen. His deceitfulness is also shown throughout his life, he lied to his mother about saying that he would stop working as

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