Chapter 2 - Holden at School

'Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.' Maybe here Dr Thurmer was trying to teach Holden that he has to go through each stage of life a certain way and these stages start with going to and completing school. We find out that Holden has not had too much of a good time with his school life as he has been expelled from 3 other school and his fourth school he had been to and expelled from was Pency Prep. Maybe Holden has been expelled from this many schools and he is an outcast and he does not fit in and maybe he takes that out on his school work and cannot be bothered to try in school anymore, the thing that tells me this is that he says he has failed 4 out of 5 of his subjects which means he can no longer stay in the school. On Page 9 in the book we see that even though Holden is growing up and getting older and it is as if his mental attitude is just stuck at being around 12, but maybe this is because Holden does not want to believe that he is growing up. We also see in this Chapter that Holden is very against people that are 'phonys' (fake).