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The Catcher in the Rye
There are many different ways to see something and everyone has a different way of perceiving things as real or fake. There are many different ways of looking at something and every single person has a right to look at things in their own unique way. Holden had a way of looking at things very differently as well. The phrase “Everyone is innocent until proven guilty” was not something that Holden went by. His thought of way or the phrase that Holden went by was “Everyone is a phony until proven otherwise” which was a very bad way of looking at things. His personality was more of a cynical type because Holden didn't always look at things as the glass is half full type. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger, the protagonist Holden Caulfield is really unable to accept people for what they are and for those that he can’t accept, he marks them as phonies and whomever he doesn’t think is pure or true is a phony as well. Holden has different things that classify people as phony and one of the many things is that he believes all hypocrites are phonies. A person that he claims is a phony due to hypocrisy would be Ossenburger. Holden starts with what Ossenburger has to do with him and he explains that Ossenburger used to be a student at Pencey and after graduating he had become a bigshot through his business. What his business was that “he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for five bucks apiece” (16). At first it seems that Holden is impartial to what Ossenburger does and doesn’t care how he makes his money. It seems as if Holden could be saying that Ossenburger is

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