Holden Caulfield is the seventeen year old protagonist and narrator of this novel. Due to smoking, he is very skinny, and slightly unhealthy. He is almost six feet three inches tall, and has some grey hair. Holden speaks in a cynical voice throughout the book. Since he is maturing to be an adult, he is very resentful of the adult world and calls the people living in it as phony. He tries to resist the entry of the new world, but has no choice but to accept the adult world and live in it. Holden wears a peculiar red hunting hat that has extra long bills and earflaps. The hat symbolises his individuality and his uniqueness. The hat also symbolises his attachment to childhood, it is a very goofy hat that an adult would not wear. Holden is very
