The woman sobbing through the movie had a little girl with her that kept asking to go to the bathroom, or the like. The woman kept telling the girl to shut up and leave her alone. Holden (correctly) saw the phoniness in the woman in that her sobbing at the movie itself would give people the impression she was kind-hearted. Her dealing with the little girl, however, showed Holden that she was, in his words, "as kind-hearted as a G...D... wolf".
A lawyer has to try and prove their client innocent whether they really are or not. Holden's father is a lawyer and Holdens feels that that is a "phony" way to make a living. Holden is worried that he will have the same "phony" life as his father.
He shows him the note that Holden wrote on his Egypt report and says 'phony' things like grand.
Luce thought Holden was impossibly immature, but Luce loved feeling superior to anyone, likely why he agreed to meet Holden for a drink, though he didn't like Holden.
Holden considered "George something . . . I don't even remember", to be a typical snobby, phony Ivy League jerk. The fact that "George" pointedly horned in on Holden's date did not help Holden's opinion of him either.
Holden used the word phony very often when describing people and things to create verbal irony.
Holden thinks the women's crying in the movie is phony because he believes they are just faking their emotions to impress the men they are with or to appear more cultured. He finds their reactions insincere and artificial, reflecting his general disillusionment with societal conventions and superficiality.
he calls them a phony because he thinks they sre fake, in their personality and who they are as a person. but isn't Holden a phony himself for always lying.
The significance is that Holden himself is a phony, yet he does not realize it.
he thinks phony is someone who discriminates against other or people who are untruthful.
A lawyer has to try and prove their client innocent whether they really are or not. Holden's father is a lawyer and Holdens feels that that is a "phony" way to make a living. Holden is worried that he will have the same "phony" life as his father.
they are phony
they are phony
Holden often uses the word "phony" to describe people whom he sees as inauthentic or hypocritical. He uses this term to criticize those who he perceives as being fake or pretentious in their behavior or speech.
Holden sees "phonies" as people who are insincere, pretentious, and fake. He values authenticity and finds it difficult to connect with those who he perceives as being inauthentic. His negative attitude towards phonies stems from his desire for genuine human connection and disdain for the superficiality of the society around him.
Holden calls others "phony" to criticize them for being insincere or fake. However, Holden himself demonstrates behavior that can be deemed hypocritical or insincere at times, such as being dishonest with himself and others, which could also be seen as a form of phoniness.
Holden does not view his younger sister, Phoebe, as phony. He sees her as genuine and pure, unlike many other people in his life. She represents innocence and authenticity to him.
men with cars= phony men with horses are not phony because horses are practicably people