Judgemental August 18, pages 19-35 RR2

Holden interacts with people in different ways. He judges people very quickly according to how they look or their actions. Robert Ackley is a good example of Holden’s behavior. Ackley lives in the room next to Holden’s. Holden only mentions all the bad things about Ackley, but he still talks to him. Also, Holden describes his roommate Stradlater as being very self absorbed. He says that Stradlater is good looking and he knows that he is good looking. Stradlater asks Holden to do him a favor and Holden says that guys like Stradlater are always asking people to do them favors, but does it for him anyway. Holden’s relationship with his family is hard to determine. The favor for Stradlater is a descriptive paper, which he writes about baseball mitt of his brother’s who passed away. He seems to be close to his family, but very independent.