city, rather than focusing on trivial topics such as high school and friendship. An example of this can be found on pages 145 and 146 when Holden tells Sally, the girl he is going out with, that a boys’ school is “full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody