Chapters 12 and 13

Well, where to start with this one? This chapter was certainly very weird and unusual, especially with the part about the prostitute and how Holden wouldn't do anything with her. Holden continues to isolate himself throughout these couple chapters, just like in the scene where he is asked to go hang out with one of his brother's friends at Ernie's Bar. He seems to be getting lonelier and lonelier as time passes on in this book. He speaks of this loneliness he is feeling on more than one separate occasion in these two chapters and it just seems to me like Holden doesn't know what he wants in life. Holden sees the whole world around him as phony and he doesn't want to be phony himself so it seems like he isolates himself from the rest of the world in order to prevent this from happening. Occasionally he will get so lonely that he needs someone else, however, just like the time he gets involved with the prostitute. He doesn't have sex with her, but because he is so lonely from isolating himself so much he just begins to talk with her, which she finds very, very strange!

Holden is definitely a strange person who goes about doing things differently, and I'm starting to notice that maybe the reason he feels so lonely and isolated is because he doesn't want to become phony like everyone else that he sees. I'm not sure where this belief of phoniness from him came from, but it is causing him to act in such awkward ways...