The Catcher In The Rye: Post #3

During winter break I began to read my first American Author book by J.D. Salinger, which is the Catcher in the Rye. I read pages 1-59 which were chapters 1 through 8. In those first chapters I was introduced into the main character Holden Caulfield's life (I say this because in my opinion the book has a sort of journal feeling to it) which begins with him talking in first person while he was attending college. He seems like a very touchy person, he doesn't seem to like anyone because he talks bad stuff about everyone (except his little sister) and how they are all phonies, it gets really annoying. Basically he doesn't like going to school there and it seems like a waste of time to him so he decides to leave but is not ready to go home until winter break officially starts because he knows his parents will freak out about it. I have noticed a lot of contradiction in the way Holden the main character talks about everyone else when really he seems to be describing himself. There is also as I said a journal feeling to the book, what I mean by that is that it feels as if it is someone's journal that I am reading and not a book.