Being “phony” is easy, many people are “phony,” and even if Holden says he hates “phony” people, and if he gave a long, hard look at himself in the mirror, he would absolutely hate himself because he is the phoniest person in the entire book. Perhaps the most illustrative example of Holden’s phoniness is when Pheobe, his younger sister yells at him for “ [not] lik[ing] any schools. [He] [doesn’t] like a million things. [He] [doesn’t]” (Salinger, 187). When Holden tries to argue against Phoebe, the two things that come to his mind are Phoebe and his dead brother, Allie. Although his only negative attitude being the main character and the narrator, he often likes to be someone else when he’s with other people; especially females. He always tries
