Catcher in the Rye, Holden feels isolated in part because he lives in a very confined circle. All of his classmates are rich, privileged kids with a narrow worldview, but, ironically, he is also too rich and privileged to connect with anyone who isn't like him. Holden's recurring quality is that he isolates himself from society at large. Throughout the book, as Holden meets people, he seems to push them away. However, in reality, he repels himself. The first example we see in the book of Holden isolating himself is at the football game. It's a Saturday afternoon, the whole school is at the game and he's alone. “It was the Saturday of the football game anyway. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay I remember that around 3 p.m. that afternoon I was at the very top of Thomsen Hill (Salinger, p. 2) . In the passage, we can see that while everyone is depressed about the game that he mentions "the most important" since it is "the last game of the season", he was on the hill watching from afar. So if something is really important, most of the time people force themselves to attend these events, but in Holden's case, he doesn't. He doesn't do it because he thinks everyone is fake and everyone is fake. Which leads Holden to try to call someone when he arrived at Penn Station after leaving Pencey Prep. “The first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I walked into a phone booth. I wanted to give someone a buzz. ..., but as soon as I walked in, I couldn't find anyone to call. (Salinger, p. 59)" Holden said that when he arrived at Penn Station, he wanted to "give someone a buzz," but when he thought of someone, he would rule out the idea, saying saying "but I didn't want to, especially when it came to Jane, even though it's clear he really cared about her since he was so angry about the date Stradlater with her. Even though she was the only person he showed Allie's glove to. He talks about calling her throughout the book but he always finds an excuse not to call her. When he does and his mother answers, he hangs up, he doesn't bother to ask if she's there. He says it's because he doesn't like talking to moms, like he claims. But in reality, he views people in the adult world as impostors, which means that if he begins or continues his relationship with Jane, he too will be considered an imposter, which will change the entire story. The reason for Holden's isolation is how much his brother Allie's death affected him. Even though 3 years have passed since his death, Holden still hasn't gotten over it. Holden reveals that the night he died, he broke all the windows in the garage. Even then, it's obvious that Holden was deeply affected by it and feels like it was unfair for him to die so young. Even though he doesn't do this sort of thing anymore, it's clear that it still bothers him a lot. He especially cries now. Throughout the book, Holden tries to make friends, while isolating himself by calling everyone fake. He doesn't really want to connect with them, they're impostors because they've been exposed to the world, unlike Allie. He mentions several times that he likes children and when talking to children, he doesn't think children are fake, or even nuns, perhaps because they are purer, and at age where Allie is indeed dead, he never experienced anything from the adults. world, or has lost its innocence. He admits that it bothers him that Allie died so.".