Phoebe's Turning Point In Catcher In The Rye

In The Catcher In The Rye Holden seems to have an unfocused outlook on life where he’s in a constant melancholy state with a lack of clarity for what he wants or needs, but the turning point is when visiting his younger sister Phoebe she's able to help him note the inconsistencies in his own life including but not limited to education, responsibility, and the future. The first time he visited her it was unbeknownst to their parents, who had spent most of the night away at a party. While they talked Phoebe, who Holden mentions is very smart , seems to piece together the early visit with his shady behavior to only mean one thing “You didn’t get kicked out or anything, did you?...You did get kicked out! You did!” (165 Phoebe) This causes her to
He sees his father's phoniness in every aspect of his job as a lawyer, from “helping others” to “saving the day”. This revelation occurs to us as the readers when he has that bit of an outwardly thought when talking to Phoebe and he explains his distaste for lawyers (which his father was) and how “...If you did go around saving guys’ lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys’ lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddamn trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn't.”(172 Holden) Not only does he hint at how he compares his father to phonies he would usually associate with actors in movies because of his job, but he also puts it in a second person's point of view as if he was hysterically trying to get you to see his point. Holden associates adults with being phonies and how they don't even notice their own phoniness. This with his fear of becoming an adult correlates with his dislike of their father. After his outburst Phoebe continues to sit there, a bit perplexed, but nevertheless listening.
Not only did Holden and Phoebe hold a few conversations like stated before, but she was and always will be a perpetual thought Holden has. For example after encountering a few nuns and thinking of their generosity, he randomly thinks to go find a record called “Little Shirley Beans” for Phoebe. There was nothing before that to cue Holden's quest for the record but like mentioned before, she's a solid fixture on the inner workings of his mind. He talks about liking the record because of the fact that “ I heard it at Pencey. A boy that lived on the next floor had it, and I tried to buy it off him because I knew it would knock old Phoebe out… It was a very old, terrific record that his colored girl singer, Estelle Fletcher...She sings it very Dixieland and whorehouse, and it doesn’t sound at all mushy.”(114-5 Holden) -------------When walking through the park he randomly wants to see Phoebe and goes to the roller rink, because he remembers her skating there in