9. What is the Holden of the present doing to solve his past conflicts?

In the final chapter Holden makes it clear that he is currently living at some sort of institution through sentences like, “[E]specially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here” and, “He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that’s in this new picture he’s writing.” Holden also admits to being sick, which, presumably, is mental illness since he is not in a hospital, which shows a great deal of maturity. The present version of Holden still shows some sign of judgemental traits when he refers to the psychoanalyst’s question as stupid, but another side of him shows a lot of growth because the so called “phonies” whom he would complain about before, he misses now that it’s over. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” (277)