The book "The Catcher In The Rye" is a tale which weaves into the
readers mind all the nostalgia and decisions of childhood. The main
character in the novel, Holden Caulifield, is a yound man of about 16 years who is finding it hard to escape his childhood and become an adult. Holden believes that everyone in the adult world is a "fake" or a "phony." He also believes that the only way to survive in the adult world is for someone to become corrupt. Holden does not seem to have any friends or close aquaintances (Mr. Antolini is not really a good friend of his) because he is constantly being moved around from school to school. He would have the reader believe that the reason for his being constantly moved around is not for lack of knoledge, heavens no, but because suddenly he realized that all the folks around him were "phonys" aloowing him the descision to leave.
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