A young teenage boy and the main character of the Cather in the Rye, Holden is a troubled teenager with many problems. Having been kicked out of (no, excuse me, "run away from") Pencey Prep, he struts off to New York and plans to live his life there for a little while. You find so much about him though that it's mildly scary.
From what I have read so far, Holden is a young man that doesn't quite know which direction he wants to travel in yet though he does know exactly what he wants--and needs--to search out for during his lifetime: phonies. Holden is absolutely obsessed with scoping them out of a crowd; he seems so immersed in the idea as well, but I think I've figured out why that could possibly be...
I've mentioned before that Holden seemed to be a very troubled teenager, and as a result, he tries to look at other things in life rather than himself. Thus, he can easily pinpoint the faults of others; I think that's mainly because he doesn't want to look at his own faults for fear that others might realize them too. To me, it's very hypocritical that he discusses when someone else fakes who they truly are when he blatantly lies to others all of the time; he even states this in the third chapter "I'm the biggest liar you'll ever meet", but we don't know for certain whether he's telling the truth or not about that...
He also has a habit of putting certain people that he holds close to him on pedestals, like Jane, Allie, and Phoebe. He regards those three as people who aren't phony, which is interesting given the fact that Jane goes out with Holden's roommate: Stradlater. You think that knowing he was a flirt and renowned for scoring all of the girls would give her some sort of warning, but she still goes out with him. It's a wonder why Holden still regards her in such high quality.
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