Jim Morrison once said: “Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.” The novel Catcher in The Rye was written by the famous Author J.D. Salinger. Morrison explains how one can have total control of their friends, like Holden; throughout the novel, the protagonist, Holden is confronted by many characters. He has positive and negative relationships with these individuals, which expresses who he really is and his purpose in life.Holden finds himself and his personality through Ackley, Maurice and Phoebe, and how they cause him to act. …show more content…
Ackley exhibits his phoniness by barging into Holden’s conversation and saying he had sex with a woman. Believing liars are phonies, Holden states: “All he did was talk in a monotonous voice about the same babe he was supposed to have sexual intercourse with the summer before.” (Salinger 48-49) Holden complains about Ackley and wanting him to leave, however he keeps talking about a fictional story that obviously was not true. Ackley shows that Holden despises people who are phonies and who have lost the game of life. This game was introduced by his teacher Mr.Spencer, and it’s those in life who succeed in life, win the game, and those who lie have lost the game. Maurice brings a sense a reality into his