MGMT 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Holden Caulfield, Rudolf Schmidt, The Catcher In The Rye

• School: York University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 1050
• Professor: Stanley Tweyman

Document Summary

To be a phony is to represent oneself as authentic and real when in reality there is no authenticity. A person who falsely pretends to be something they are not. In the rye by j. d salinger goes through the life of a boy who is struggling with the transition from childhood to adulthood. The protagonist, holden caulfield is a character who struggles to connect with people. This is because holden caulfield sets high standards and as a result the protagonist views people as phonies . The main character, holden caulfield is a phony to himself because he calls everyone a phony as an escape route in case he gets turned down by them. Holden caulfield is a phony to himself because he claims he does not want to enter adulthood yet he does adult actions. The main character is a phony to other characters in the novel because he lies many times and makes false claims to different people.