My eleventh graders and I have been reading JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye together. The other day they were working on figuring out what Holden’s values were. In order to do this, they had to identify things he called “phony” (which he does A LOT) and figure out what specifically he meant when he said “phony.” Then, they had to figure out the opposite of that which is phony, which would help them to arrive at what he valued.
As this is an important piece of analysis, I decided to review the answers with the class. Upon realizing that one of his uses of “phony” means “two faced,” I asked for the opposite of two faced. “ONE FACED,” one of my students yelled out.
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Yes. One faced.
