In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist Holden Caulfield suffers with his interminable shadow material. Holden is often found busying himself to avoid dealing with his shadow. His ignorance drives him to do immoral things, like lying and ordering a prostitute. When Ms. Morrow asked him about why he was coming home, Holden became uneasy and thought of a lie. “Then I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. Just to stop lying. Once I got started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it. No kidding. Hours” (Salinger 58). Holden begins to lie to avoid the more pressing issue at hand, the fact that he got himself kicked out of Pencey. He knew it would hurt his mother, and therefore avoided the subject to
