Relating Holden

When reading this quote I think of Holden right away. When I read I see that he is different from everyone else and that he has his own thoughts. When he calls people phony he's calling them fake or that they are trying to hard to be something they are not. Holden left his school where everyone was alike in ways, and when he branched off into the city he saw a different life that schools couldn't prepare him for. When he came across the prostitute or just encountering other people, he saw that they are different and phony. He would rather die knowing that the way he was living was better then living another life where he's living just to please or get around in the world. He is living to die. Instead of a quote I chose to connect it to a scene that happened in a book we read in class, The absolute true diary of a part time Indian. When Arnold attended his grandmothers funeral everyone around him started crying but he just stood there emotionless, when first reading this I questioned why he wasn't crying or anything because as a society we expect people to cry during sad events but sometimes when people don't we think there stubborn or just doesn't care. That's how Holden is, he doesn't have a lot of emotions on the outside but on the inside he does, he goes into detail about his feelings and thoughts torts them. Also Arnold laughed when his sister died and he handled that really weird and I think he laughed because he just didn't know how to handle it sort of in a way that Holden did when Allie his brother died.