Andrew Dennewitz Period 2 In the award winning novel, The Catcher In The Rye, author J. D. Salinger shows the phoniness of 1950’s society through the character of a young boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield is an intelligent and bright, sixteen year old boy who attends Pency Prepatory School. However due to his troubled mind and overall character he fails out of school and begins to wander the streets of New York. Through Holden’s …showed first 75 words of 944 total…

…showed last 75 words of 944 total…from the 1950’s society and today’s society have differed slightly in respect that phoniness is seen more often in today’s society than in the past. Furthermore as the world enters into the new millennium will these examples of phoniness shown in J. D. Salinger novel The Catcher In The Rye, become less apparent in society or will it become so abundant that we could no longer trust anyone not even ourselves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**