"The whole thing was sort of funny, in a way, if you thought about it, and all of the sudden I did something I shouldn't have. I laughed." -Holden
To me this quote says that Holden did something he shouldn't have done. He laughed at something that Sally did not thing was one bit funny. I think it shows Holden's lack of taking things seriously. It seems to me like Holden can take anything regarding his family seriously but when it goes outside of his family its all fake so he doesn't care. At least Holden realized that laughing was wrong. I think that this can be used through out the rest of the book because it shows that Holden can not take things seriously if he doesn't feel that the other person is real. Holden thinks pretty much everyone is phony, and if they are phony then why should he care what he says to them? Phonies are a joke to Holden so at the beginning he might treat them seriously, and I think he treats them seriously at the beginning hopping to find a true real person behind the phoniness.
I like this quote because he is childish he does these things either because he's mad or if he s just trying to make someone mad I don't think he wanted to laugh but he did and that mad Sally mad.
ReplyDeletei think that this quote was a good choice and that Holden doesn't care about phonies. I think that your right about how it can probably be applied to the rest of the book.
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