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Holden can be an average teen if you look at the basics. Every teen goes through their certain problems and have their opinions about anything and everying anything. Teens grow up hating a lot of things, including me. There are just somethings that I can't stand, but thats ok. "In the first place, I hate actors. They don't act like people. They just think they do." (p. 117) He is a normal teen to me because he likes real people he doesn't like the fakes or "phony" which I can completely relate to. Another thing that I can relate Holden to is how he acts. He acts so tough and so broad. He is your average teenager thinking they are invunerable when really I just think he is holding everything inside. Teenagers, espicailly guys, will hide their true emotions by doing whatever it is that will make them look cool, like drugs and alcohol, which Holden turned to as well. Holden says he hates phony people, but yet he seems to be one of them. So maybe he is dissapointed in himself.