Holden has unrealistic standards that make him hate almost everyone
Over the course of our reading J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, I have attempted to come up with a clear and simple thesis to Holden Caulfield's worldview. It is not that his view of the world is complicated. It is something that is immediately familiar without being completely explicable or tangible from the first paragraph of his narration. His hatred of movies, of people doing things to make money or because they experience societal pressure to do so, and Holden's disdain for this exemplified through his own refusal to "participate in society" are all reminiscent of so many angsty boy pop-cultural classics. Of course, his positions themselves stem more from his place in society than any removal from it. However, regardless of his perspective's familiarity I still could not really explain exactly what it is that he believes or what drives it. There is no central problem or battle that he is fighting, no underclass that he represents, and no one,