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How  the theme of phony relates to the novel

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How  the theme of phony relates to the novel

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One of the  biggest ideas or themes in Catcher in the Rye is the topic of “phonies”. This idea is one of the main things that the main character obsesses over until he finds himself going crazy because he thinks everyone is either fake or not good enough for him. Phony is used throughout  the novel to show how Holden feels about things and why he feels that way. Holden feels that practically everyone he meets is a phony, including his brother because  he became a scriptwriter in Hollywood, and Holden thinks that Hollywood is phony. There are really only three people in the book that Holden says aren’t phony, Jane, Allie, and Phoebe.  Allie was Holden’s brother that died and his death was really the turning point for Holden’s mental health.

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Salinger uses the theme of being phony to help show Holden’s feeling towards people. He uses it to develop the thought of innocence and staying young and innocent forever. Holden only thinks of adults as being phony.  This theme is throughout the entire book and is why Holden makes many of the decisions. He doesn’t care about dropping out of school because he believes everyone there is a phony. Salinger uses this to try and make connection with the reader. He wanted them to be able to relate to wanting to stay young and not wanting to take on tasks of adults because adults are apparently just phonies.

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Timeline of phonies in Catcher in the Rye 

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Timeline of phonies in Catcher in the Rye 

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Page 1: Holden tells of his brother and how he sold out to Hollywood.

Pages 2-3: Holden talks about how phony Pencey and all his past schools are.

Page 27: Holden thinks Stradlater is kind  of a phony because he’s a “secret slob”.

Pages 54-58: Holden proves himself to be quite a phony when  he lies to Mrs. Morrow about his name and her son and the reason he’s  going  home.

Page 83-84: Holden is at this place called Ernie’s and he thinks that everyone there is a phony because they’re applauding for Ernie and he thinks Ernie is phony because he’s  doing a bunch of tricky parts and being a show-off.

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D.B - Holden says he is a phony because he sold himself to Hollywood for his stories that he writes.
Stradlater- Stradlater is a secret slob
Mr. Haas - Holden said he would give parents a phony handshake and smile.
Ernie-  Says he is showing off by doing difficult stuff.

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"I'd have this rule that no one could do anything phony when they visited me. If they tried to do anything phony, they couldn't stay. " (205)

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Holden describes the ad for Pencey Prep in magazines and this is what he describes.

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One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That's all. They were coming in the goddam window. For instance, they had this headmaster, Mr. Haas, that was the phoniest bastard I ever met in my life. Ten times worse than old Thurmer." (13)

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"They advertise  in about a thousand magazines, always  showing some hot-shot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. Like as all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time.i never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place." (pg. 2)

This quote begins to help form the idea of phony as a symbol.

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In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, readers are introduced to a teenage  boy named Holden. Holden is an extremely critical character who believes that all the adults around him act fake and the only true innocence is in children. Though he thinks all these things, Holden himself is actually also quite “phony”, he lies to most everyone he meets about almost everything in his life, even about little meaningless things. Holden states many times throughout the novel that he can’t stand phonies, especially all the phony adults in his life and his past schools.