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Chapter 3:
Books: Out of Africa, Human Bondage, Return of The Native: all books are symbolic for/ hint at his nature. Chapter touches upon Caulfields hatred for phonies when he is notorious for lying and being fake.
Chapter 4:
True feelings towards Stradlater are revealed. We find out that he has a deep connection with this girl, Jane, who is about to go out with the last person Holden would ever want to see her with. First signs of him having a deep connection with someone outside of his family. Holden's decision to write Stradlater's english composition shows he is somewhat of a pushover.
Chapter 5:
We find out how deep Holden's affections are for his deceased brother.
Chapter 6:
For somebody who claims to be "real", he possesses a lot of petty qualities and fears. We see jealousy rear it's ugly head when Stradlater returns from his date with Jane.
Chapter 7:
Holden explains that he feels lonesome and rotten, but there are multiple possibilities as to why he feels this way.
Chapter 8:
We find out about Holden's habits as he explains his fondness for his normal "night-train" adventures. He lies voraciously to one of his fellow student's mother on the train, but not out of the kindness of his heart, but more out of the fact that he wanted to see how far he could take it.
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Chapter 13:
We discover Holden's feelings toward loss and how uncaring he is when loses something. We also discover how cowardly he is. But when he is presented with the opportunity to have a fling with a prostitute, he makes a split second decision and says yes, almost as if he needs to prove something to himself. His cowardly disposition gets the best og him and instead of "getting sexy" with the prostitute he trys to make conversation instead.
