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"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger is about a boy named Holden and his struggles of accepting adulthood. It starts with Holden getting kicked out of Pencey Prep and his relationship with the students. He then goes to New York goes to a few nightclubs and searches for his sister. During this time he is lonely and is talking to anyone he can. He finally goes to see Phoebe and talks with her. He then takes her to the park and finally accepts adulthood and what it comes with. Throughout this whole journey Holden meets a lot of phonies and morons.

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"All morons hate it when you call them a moron...that's the way you can always tell a moron. They never want to discuss anything intelligent." pg. 44-45

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Salinger's purpose in including this topic in the novel is to show how Holden negatively sees adults and the people around him. Also, he shows how Holden is hypocritical and judges the people around him when he acts the same way. He reveals how Holden thinks all the adults and people act fake around each other. Holden is out there also acting like that when he is around different people like Ackley or Stradlater or when he tries to act older to drink.

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"You ought to go to a boys' school sometime...it's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you care if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little cliques." pg. 131

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"I started putting on my pants in the dark. I could hardly get them on I was so damn nervous. I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around." pg. 192

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Stradlater- Holden's room mate. He is important to this topic because he is the one that Holden calls a moron.

Holden- Holden himself is a phony because he is a hypocrite and lies often.

Sally Hayes- She is a friend of Holden's from New York. He goes out on a date with her. After ice skating they go to eat and he tells her how phony boys schools are.

Adults- All the adults in the novel because Holden thinks that they are all phonies.

Mr.Antolini- Holden's old teacher who lets him crash at his place for the night. Holden wakes up to him patting his head and admiring him while he is sleeping.

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1. Moron is first mentioned when Holden calls Stradlater that and it escalates into a fight between the two.
2. Holden uses phony when he goes to the Lavender Room and talks and dances with the three ladies.
3. He calls Sally a phony for her letter and tells her how phony boys schools are and how she ought to go to one sometime.
4.When Holden is talking to Phoebe and he's telling her about the school and how the teachers and students were all phonies.
5. When Holden was asleep on Mr.Antolini's couch and he woke up to him patting/petting his head

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Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Little, Brown, 2001.

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In the novel, Holden calls Stradlater a moron. This picture shows how people can be empty brained and not the brightest. This goes with people being morons because Holden thought Stradlater was one because he was pretty empty brained and self centered.
https://johnnycullen.net/2016/06/28/empty-brain/

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Holden stays at his old teacher Mr.Antolini's house and sleeps on the couch. He wakes up to him patting/petting his head and gets pretty freaked out. He then goes on to say how he knows many perverts and how that kind of stuff happens around him a lot.
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-2097317-stock-footage-woman-patting-head-of-sleeping-child.html

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In the novel, Holden has a very strong dislike of adults and others who are phony. This photo shows how adults and people are phony or two faced and may not be exactly who they present themselves to be.
http://thecontextofthings.com/2017/05/04/two-faced-people/

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Limelight by Rush
This song addresses phonies.
"Living in a fish eye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme"
This section of the song directly relates to Holden's perception of phony adults. Holden feels that people "are merely players, performers and portrayers" in order to fit in with their peers. This behavior bothers Holden even though he often acts fake towards people himself. Holden sees all adults as phonies which makes him even more wary of adulthood, wishing he could halt time and never leave childhood.

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The topic of being phony, pervert, and moron influence the novel because that is how Holden judges people. He thinks that all adults are phonies and all they care about is being the same. He says how phony the boys at his school are and how his room mate is a moron. Holden may hate phonies in the novel but what he fails to realize is that he is one too. He tries to fit in with the people at his school and tries to appear much older than he really is. The topic of pervert influences the novel because towards the end you see that Holden finds out that one of the adults he actually like turned out to be perverted when he woke up to him petting and admiring him.