Word: holdenâ
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Like Huck, speaking the superbly authentic dialect of his age and his place, Holden is a runaway from respectability, the possessor of a fierce sense of justice, the arbiter of his own morality. If one fact more than any other links Catcher to its generation, it is that for Holden???as presumably for his creator?the ultimate condemnation is summed up in the word phony. A whole, vague system of ethics centers around that word, and Holden Caulfield is its Kant...
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