The Catcher in the Rye Book Review

Hey /lit/, I just finished re-reading The Catcher in the Rye. I'm trying to process it fully, and in my note-taking I'm trying to figure out what the three most important encounters Holden has. There's simply some many to choose from, I'm not sure which. I'm simply just trying to connect which events cause his character to develop, but I only want 3. If I do anymore I'll probably expand way too much, and I tend to do that when I take notes for books I read. So, I suppose what I'm asking of you guys is to help me identify three major events Holden had, and why you believe that those are so. Any takers?

The point of the novel is that all human collusion leads to "phoniness," and that at a deeper level this is due to the fundamental ambiguousness of human perception.  At the same time, trying to convey this message to the reader constitutes an unavoidable act of "phoniness" by the author himself. 

That's why Salinger became a deluded loner/closet pedo later in life.  The inherent irony in this book drove him bananas.

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So it goes.