Phony!

According to Holden a phony is someone who talks and acts different than they actually are. I think that Holden is a phony himself because of some of the things he says and does. In the novel he acts tough towards Maurice but when Maurice actually hits him he doesn't even fight back he ends up crying when Maurice takes his 5 dollars and leaves. This shows that he isn't as tough as he was trying to make himself seem. Due to Holden's illness he doesn't know how to act so sometimes he does some things that make him seem phony.