get the impression that he likes young people better than old people. He refers to his parents as distant, one example is: "my parents would have two haemorrhages apiece if I told anything personal about them. They're quite touchy about that, especially my father. They're nice and all, I'm not saying that, but they're also touchy as hell". I think Holden believes that everybody who has grown up is phoney because their behaviour and advice are all false. Maybe he is in the opinion that children loose their innocence as they grow up.Holden is an amusing character, the talks to everyone without the respect others would use. (Especially in the 1950`s) Even though Holden believes in innocence or honesty, he is very pessimistic and he seems to find something depressing in almost everyone and everything.He feels alone most of the time, and he seldom finds any place he feels comfortable.It's easy to understand that he feels misplaced in the society he lives in when he says:"I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, nobody's around, nobody big I mean, except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff, I mean if they're running and they don't look they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I`d do all day. I`d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I`d really like to be."...
