While Holden is in town he recalls that “[at] the end of the first act we went out with all the other idiots for a cigarette. What a deal it was. You have never seen so many impostors in your whole life” (Salinger 164). Meanwhile Holden is doing the exact same thing, calling other people fake for what they do, proving that he is just as flawed as everyone else. No one is immune to Holden's vision of how people should act and how they actually do it, 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 while the word is commonly used throughout the text when Holden often complains about life like any other teenager, he contradicts himself, lies, and is a fake. times. Holden tells the reader, “I'm the most terrible liar you've ever seen in your life. It's terrible. If I'm going to the store to buy a magazine and someone asks me where I'm going, I tend to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible” (22). By admitting this Holden makes himself less false than others, because he is able to recognise