Catching Catcher Fever

I am much farther into the book then I was in my last post and yet I still find that the Holden's overall character has not changed much at all. When Holden went into the city to stay in a hotel he decided that he would go down to the club. But just like him what he thought was a great idea, when he got there he just talked about how much he hated the place and how he was surrounded by phonies and all that. He sees three girls sitting near him and he decides he wants to dance with them, and yet as soon as he gets near them he hates them. It seems as if noone is up to his level, as if he is superior in one form or another to every single person he sees or meets. And at the club when Lillian came up to talk to him he lied his way away from her after saying how she was kind of nice.

Later when he got back to the hotel, the elevator guy offered him a prostitute and he decieded that it would be a good idea to get one. When she got to his room however he decided against the whole thing and just talked to her. That scene reminded me of the movie Moulin Rouge, when Ewan Mcgregor just talked to Nicole Kidman even though she was a "whore" (apoligies for language and or bad feelings to anyone). And when the man came back to demand that Holden pay more he just tried to fight him after saying that he was one of the biggest wimps in the world. I am trying to decide whether Holden has some sort of mental "handicap" that stops him from 1. creating relationships 2. allowing people to see him for who he really is, or 3. hating everything and everyone around him for almost no apparent reasons.