HOLDEN

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Judgmental, Short-Fuzed, Nonchalant

Holden is judgmental of how people do things, how they talk, how they dress, how they look, how they act, and how they do and say things they don't mean. Holden believes that everyone should act a certain way and look like how everyone else should, he also calls everyone that "isn't normal" or "weird" a phony, meaning a fake person.

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Holden is very self driven and nonchalant, especially when he has the freedom to make his own decisions. Throughout the whole book and especially when he is alone and away from Pency Prep, he smokes very wildly and drinks almost every night he can until he gets super drunk. Every time he needs to do something other than drink, smoke or do some English work, he doesn't do it or denies that it is there.

Holden is very short-fuzed because once a person says or does something offensive, he is quick to get back in their face. An instance when he got into someone's face once they did something minute and possibly innocent and considerate is when Holden stayed at Mr. Antolini's house, but Mr. Antolini patted his forehead in the middle of the night.

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Who is Holden

"What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory." (104). This shows Holden's train of thought, at times he is rational and accepts things and usually thinks about what may happen. Other times, he will be completely oblivious to what repercussions may unfold after something he did or thinks.

"'Listen. Let's get one thing straight. I refuse to answer any typical Caulfield questions tonight. When in hell are you going to grow up?'" (140). Holden met up with an acquaintance, Carl Luce, from Whooton to talk and have a drink or two with. He was super excited to hear not about his social or business side of life, but his sex life. Every time Carl Luce said to change topic or listen to some advice, Holden kept looping back to how his sex life is and Luce got annoyed enough to say stop and to talk about something else.

"'Shut up, now, Holden,'", "'Just shut up, now,'", " 'Now, shut up, Holden, God damn it- I'm warning ya,'" (44). When Stradlater came back from his date, holden got jealous and started wondering what he and Jane did and it eventually led to Holden getting out of his nerve and getting at Stradlater. Stradlater has to tell Holden 10+ times to "Shut up" until he has to punch him out of his senses.