But Stradlater is bigger and stronger, while Holden is very tall and thin. He’s a senior, 18 years old, and as tall as Holden. Minor Characters Ward Stradlater Stradlater is Holden’s roommate at Pencey is real good whistler, although his whistle is never in tune it has a great range. Now he can’t make fist with his right hand because of that. When Allie died, Holden spent all day in the garage and he broke all the windows. Holden really liked his younger brother Allie, who died. ’ He hates ‘phonies’, people who have an attitude. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them-all cockeyed, naturally-what it meant, and how they’d all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. Somebody’d written ‘F*** you on the wall. ’ He exaggerates big time and he swears a lot.Įspecially when he talks to his roommates. It isn’t much, but you get quite a lot of vitamins in the malted milk. ‘When I’m somewhere I generally just eat a Swiss cheese and a malted milk. If he says something he thinks is dumb or not tough enough he jokes about it. He really is afraid people will think he’s a softy or some sort of rich sissy.
” He adds “… if you want to know the truth” very often after he has added something to what he’d said before. I even had sort of a stomach-ache, if you want to know the truth. He even goes on proving himself to the reader.
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