Phonies People may not be what they appear to seem like. For Holden Caulfield from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, he calls these people phonies. Holden despise people who try to act like someone in which they are not. He encounters numerous amounts of phonies in his journey throughout New York City and even before he left the boarding school, Pencey Prep. Many characters in the novel share this …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…beings. As human beings, no one is perfect and will lie and become classified as a phony sooner or later. It is the amount of phoniness in the person that determines whether he or she has a bad or good personality. Salinger tries to convey the message that even if one is a phony, that does not necessarily mean that he or she is a bad person but that he or she is only human.