The definition of phony is not genuine or fraudulent, which can describe many people. Including Holden Caulfield the protagonist, he is a 17 year old boy who has was expelled from his school Pencey. After a fight with his roommate Stradlater he decides to leave school early and go to manhattan to avoid telling his parents. In the book The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is struggling with being surrounded by phonies and being a phony himself. Holden talk about many people being phony but there were many encounters that Holden himself acted phony. Holden Caulfield, the biggest judge of them all, calls everyone a phony, when he is a phony himself.
While at school Holden encounters many phony people. While Holden is talking to his old history teacher, Mr. Spencer, who called Holden’s parents grand people. Holden went on to say how much he hated the word …show more content…
Holden talks about his love for riding the train at night. He say he usually buys a sandwich and four magazines that have dumb stories about phony people.”One of those stories with a lot of phony, lean-jawed guys named David in it, and a lot of phony girls named Linda or Marcia that are always lighting all the goddam David's' pipes for them”(60). While at the edmont hotel holden looks out his window and sees a couple messing around. This gets him talking about how he doesn't understand sex. He say that he once made a vow to himself that he went mess around with phony girl but he broke it the same night he made it. “I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman” (70). While at a play holden encounters so more phonies. “At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they
While at school Holden encounters many phony people. While Holden is talking to his old history teacher, Mr. Spencer, who called Holden’s parents grand people. Holden went on to say how much he hated the word …show more content…
Holden talks about his love for riding the train at night. He say he usually buys a sandwich and four magazines that have dumb stories about phony people.”One of those stories with a lot of phony, lean-jawed guys named David in it, and a lot of phony girls named Linda or Marcia that are always lighting all the goddam David's' pipes for them”(60). While at the edmont hotel holden looks out his window and sees a couple messing around. This gets him talking about how he doesn't understand sex. He say that he once made a vow to himself that he went mess around with phony girl but he broke it the same night he made it. “I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman” (70). While at a play holden encounters so more phonies. “At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they