While Holden is in town, he remembers that "at the end of the first act, we went out with all the other assholes to have a cigarette." What a deal it was. You’ve never seen so many fakes in your entire life” (Salinger 164). Meanwhile, Holden does the exact same thing, he calls others fake, proving that he is just as flawed as everyone else. No one is safe from Holden's views on how people should act and how they actually do, not even his family. Holden mentions how his father, a lawyer, and his brother DB, a famous author, do things for wealth and power, and he finds this wrong and false. For Holden, the word fake has a much greater meaning than for any other person, and although the word is commonly used throughout the text, when Holden often complains about life like any other teenager, he contradicts, lies and is false. times. Holden tells the reader, “I am the most terrible liar you have ever seen in your life. It's horrible. If I even go to the store to buy a magazine and someone asks me where I'm going, I'm likely to answer that I'm going to the opera. It’s terrible” (22). By admitting this, Holden makes himself less false than the others, because he is able to recognize