I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3

He is accusing everyone of being phony,but he is the most hypocritical person of all.He is pretending to have moral values and to be something he is not.He uses a word phony very often,even for people who are only his acquaintances.Holden is trying to achieve freedom trough his lies.It gives him wrong perception of the world and false feeling that he can be whatever he wants to be, without consequences and responsibilities.He doesn't have any direction in his life.

With his lies he gets false sense of a freedom.He gets pity from Mrs.Morrow by lying that he has brain tumor.Or lying that he is going to Opera instead of buying magazine he is acting like a snob and he is accusing others of snobby behavior.He admits he is a liar but that doesn't justify his actions.
Holden said he is the most terrific liar,but he is easily to be recognised as the one.He is very judgemental and if you judge people all the time ,you have to show more maturity in life,you have to be kind of role model.He is overprotective regarding Jane Gallagher ,he is fighting with Ward because he wants to be her guardian angel but at the same time he is using girls in the same way as Ward.
His attitude toward money is another example of him being pony. At the beginning he is calling his brother a prostitute because he makes good living writing screenplays in Hollywood.He admits leaving Pencey Prep that he has more then enough money but still ,he sells his skates to the other student.
And we see that his lies get more serious and will get him in trouble.The question is how long you can live that kind of life.One day he will not recognise himself,he will not know what is reality and what is his immaginery world.

Journal 1 Quotes

What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1

Holden is trying to find some closure,he is trying to justify his actions for leaving the school.In a way he tries to memorize significant moments, so one day he knows that even leaving the school had some meaning and explanations.Possible ,one day when he gets mature and grows up he can explain to himself what was happening to him and find some answers.For each action in life we try to come up with the best outcome,sometimes for whatever reason the outcome is not what we wanted ,something is pulling you back and you take wrong decisions.
It is important to say not just good buy, also all these things that stay unsaid to the people you love and we regret for not telling them one day.I have a personal experience,leaving my hometown in a hurry because of the war I didn't have chance to say good by to many of my friends, and many years after, they don't forgive me for that.
Holden is trying to justify his actions,lot of things come trough his mind and finding the right path in a jungle is not easy for 16 year old.His feelings about people,their characters, are very intense,so is his confusion.He is an observer,he is observing students,people on a train,
people in the hotel.
We meet all kind of characters,strong,funny,weak,wise,but what troubles Holden the most is , he didn't have chance to say final good-buy to his brother Allie or let him go on a bike ride with him .Or how can you say good buy to someone who you care about very much and you know the person is dying.His sister Phoebe takes the place and every time he feels depressed and lonely he thinks about calling her.She is the one who can comfort him for the moments he missed with
his brother Allie.

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