In "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden is a bit of a mess. He is expelled from his fourth school, because he really doesn't try hard enough, and judges almost everyone and everything. He thinks a lot of his teachers are "phonies" because he sees them as trying to hard to be something they aren't. He was obviously affected by his brother, Allie, who dies three years before. His classmate in a previous school also committed suicide, which also affected him.
In the school he was in at the start of the book, Pency Prep, he found most of his teachers to be phonies, or liars, and many of the students he was very judgemental over. Instead of going further in depth, Holden decided to judge them very shallowly. You can tell the affects of the deaths of Allie, and his classmate shows in his grades. He fails all his classes except for English, because he likes the teacher. He doesn't apply himself, and that is what shoes justice. If you don't apply yourself, and if you don't try, there are consiquences.
For every action, there are consiquences. Holden really didn't understand that, and you could tell. It seemed like a social disorder, because he just didn't read people correctly. Just like when he found out that his old crush from summer, Jane, when he found out his roomate was going out with her, and didn't even appreciate her, he threw a punch at him. He didn't realize that she wasn't his, and he didn't judge his roomate Stradlater correctly. In responce to his action, Stradlater pushed him to the ground, and told him to appologize, but instead he called him names, and got punched in the face.
In conclusion, there are consiquences to your actions, and that is really what justice is. Holden was showed justice, because what he can't just do things and there be no concequences.
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