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The theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they're

as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New

York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter

any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other hand he could have

liked them for being as Elmemson said a "none conformist." But I doubt it, he seemed to like kids

more than anything. And his job, as he felt, was to protect them in their innocents; of which I will

talk about in my second theme.



The first example that stands out in my mind is the scene with Stradlater in the "can." If you

remember Stradlater was getting ready for his other date while Holden watched him. "Stradlater

was a secret slob" in public he always looked good and got all the girls but in fact he was a slob. His

razor that made him look so good was "rusty as hell and full......

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