Dissecting Holden's argument with Sally
"It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. [...] If you try to have a little intelligent--" (170). "It's full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day" The first line is a window into Holden's idea of intelligence and adulthood, in that the unnamed all boys school is only preparing kids to go and get a regular 9-5 office job with a decent enough salary to make a living, which is exactly what Holden doesn't want, because to him, a 9-5 office job is synonymous with the taint of adulthood; "I said no, there wouldn't be marvelous places to go to after I we...