He's so lonely, in fact, that he even spends free time with his fellow boarders – who he often hates – just to avoid spending a Saturday night by himself."(The Dormouse,"The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - Review.") Throughout his three days in New York, he tends to get worse, even dropping to thoughts of suicide from the inability to make friends and cure his depression. He also realizes something besides the never ending phoniness. He should be catching children in the rye fields so they don't fall off the cliff and become phonies or lose their innocence. Holden is a depressed, anti-social, judgmental and lonely person, and it does not get better, his New York trip makes sure of
He's so lonely, in fact, that he even spends free time with his fellow boarders – who he often hates – just to avoid spending a Saturday night by himself."(The Dormouse,"The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - Review.") Throughout his three days in New York, he tends to get worse, even dropping to thoughts of suicide from the inability to make friends and cure his depression. He also realizes something besides the never ending phoniness. He should be catching children in the rye fields so they don't fall off the cliff and become phonies or lose their innocence. Holden is a depressed, anti-social, judgmental and lonely person, and it does not get better, his New York trip makes sure of