Phoniness
... He dreams to be the “catcher in the rye” saving children from adulthood and its phoniness. ... Salinger’s bildungsroman novel, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through life becoming a part of the phoniness and running away from the phoniness adult world. ... He yearns to experience things, but his hatred for the phoniness of the situation backs him out. ... He strongly hates this boy, but he lies and creates a perfect boy for the mother and joins the phoniness of the world. Even though he wants to run away from this, he follows and continues the phoniness. ... This danger is interpreted as adulthood and its phoniness. ... The fakeness of mainly the adult world disturbs the mind of Holden Caulfield, yet a part of him continues to go into the direction full of phoniness.