One of the most interesting things about reading books is that after a while you relate all the characters you've read so far with each other.It form a full circle. I saw many similarities between Holden and Charlie (from 'The perks of being a wallflower'). When the book was first published, Holden was dubbed the icon of 'Teenage rebellion' and many other such labels. On the contrary, many readers in the recent time see him as a good-for-nothing whiner. Well, I beg to differ. The way Holden thinks about things and the way he sees people may seem repulsive. The truth is that at some part of our life, we have had the same thoughts that he did. We thought some people were too pretentious and as Holden calls it a 'Phony'. The only thing is we learnt to join the 'herd' and Holden didn't.