Phonies In Catcher In The Rye

In literature as in life, people struggle with principles or beliefs they hold. In Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger we follow Holden Caulfield who is a college student who is afraid of becoming an adult. Those who are adults are considered “phonies” to him. Holden is a very closed in type character who can only stand a few people. Holden lost his brother when he was a child. This causes him not to want to lose his innocence. This in turn makes it so he has a problem with the world. This forces him to go thought this book trying to accept the fact that he will have to grow up at a point. In Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield has a struggle struggles with the principles that he holds.
Holden has an issue with most adults that he thinks lost their innocence. Whenever Holden thinks that an adult has lost their innocence he calls them phonies. In the book he splits characters into two categories. Those are Innocent and Phony. Those who are innocent are the ones who are children or nuns or his brother that he lost earlier. In the phony category is everyone one else. There are more people that he put in the phony category. This causes him to have a struggle with the majority of people who are living around him. Holden cannot come to terms with these people due to them no longer pure.
Holden has an issue with many of the things other people doing causing him with feeling depressed. In the book he constantly talks about how he is depressed from what other people do. It seems to him that every action that a phony does causes him to be depressed. Holden gets to the point at the end of the book that this depression becomes something that physically harms him with him getting headaches and passing out. To him it is like everything in society is wrong and that causes him to feel depressed and things just keep getting worse to him. This adds on to his struggle with his