Holden believes that people in his surrounding are phonies yet impressive. Holden is about to live Pencey but he receive a letter from Mr. Spencer, a history teacher in Pencey and one of the teacher that flunks Holden in school. Holden meets Mr. Spencer because he wants to say goodbye to the old dude, but eventually it turns out that their meeting leads to become a life-enhancing lecture, “Life is a game.” This quote doesn’t appeal to Holden, because he believes that you need to get in the side where all the hot shot are place. Furthermore, he narrate a story about Mr. Haas, he is a teacher that goes around to shake-hands with everybody’s parent except if some boy have a little-funny looking parent. Holden believes that most people are imposters; they usually act good things in people where they think they should act nicely. Holden also believes that his parents are phonies yet impressive, because they want to look good parents to other people’s mind, yet when Holden tries to act maturely, none of his parents recognize his effort.
Holden observes that his dorm mates are all annoying. People in his surrounding such