Holden and his lies!

J.D. Salinger represents Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye as a lazy seventeen-year-old boy who is trying to figure out the world and expresses himself by lying for entertainment. Once Holden starts out by saying one lie, he keeps on lying to defend his last lie and he doesn’t know how to get out of it. Many people lie when they are young and even when you are an adult but Holden does it excessively. He doesn’t care who he is lying to just as long as they believe him. One of the reasons he might lie is because he has an imagination that goes wild at times and he needs to express it to someone.
Holden has many types of lies. The typical one is a lie just to get him out of trouble or a particular situation. Holden was at a bar in New York and saw his brother’s old girlfriend who wanted to talk to him. Instead of staying and just talking with her, he said, “I was just leaving, I have to meet somebody” which, of course, was a lie. Holden figures by lying he could...