List some of the people and actions Holden sees as phony, and then discuss how he is phony himself in The Catcher in the Rye.

PHONIES.  About the only two
people that Holden does not consider phonies are his sister, Phoebe, and his dead
brother, Allie. Virtually everyone else fits this
label.

• Holden calls the headmaster of Pencey
  Prep a "phony slob."


• Pencey
  Prep


• Lillian Simmons


• Sally
  Hayes.  Holden believes his ex-girlfriend has acquired a snooty, Ivy League
  outlook.


• Mr. Antolini.  Although he is Holden's favorite
  teacher, he is also a phony because Holden believes him to be a
  pervert.


• D. B. Caulfield.  Holden believes his brother
  has sold out for the financial success of
  Hollywood.


• Stradlater.  His "obnoxious" roommate is
  handsome but intellectually lazy.


• Sunny, the prostitute. 
  She accepts payment from Holden, but then returns with her pimp for more money; Holden
  wasted her time by talking instead of having sex.


• The
  Edmont Hotel.  It's full of "perverts and morons."


• The
  Seattle girls.  Their main goal of being in New York is to see
  celebrities.

HOLDEN'S
PHONINESS.  Perhaps the best example of Holden's own phoniness comes when
sister Phoebe claims that he hates "a million things." When Holden tries to disprove
this, the only two things that he can admit to himself that he likes is Phoebe and his
dead brother, Allie. Holden's hatred of virtually everything reveals his own mental
instability: He is the worst phony of them all because he can see nothing good in
anything around him--a world that should provide him at least a few
pleasures. 

However, despite his totally negative attitude
as the narrator, he often pretends to be someone else when he is around
others--particularly females. He always tries to impress them by pretending to be
something he is not.