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Society is full of artificial people. Influences such as television, magazines, money, and fame encourage people to focus on a person’s outside features rather than their inside behavior. People have adjusted to this society and harmonize in it. For those in ....

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.... Holden’s beliefs and speech evolve the external conflict. “He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did.” Here Holden was stating his thoughts on his roommate. The quote suggests that the roommate was fake because he would appear well groomed, but underneath he was a slob. The majority of the story was about Holden contemplating over the faults of society. Holden’s views were the focus of the story, and without the use of first person Holden’s external conflict would not have been fully expressed. To add to Holden’s views about society, J.D. Salinger used ....