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In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist and narrator of the story, Holden Caulfield is a thoughtful and sensitive sixteen year old boy, who has a history of expulsions from various prep-schools. This is mainly because of his incapability to adjust himself to the academic life and the society around him that withholds hypocrisy and phoniness. As he narrates through the novel he narrates with a tone between bitterness and cynicism. He is currently at Pencey Prep-school, a school in which Holden despises for its prevailing phoniness. "Phony" is the word Holden uses to characterize insincere or fake people. Phonies, like his fellow students are most interested in playing a part or looking good than in doing or saying anything honest. As Holden narrates the story he constantly changes the setting a lot. He goes from being at Pencey Prep-school to a hotel, to Ernie's Bar to Central Park.
When being at Pencey prep-school, Holden is surrounded with his......

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