Holden Caulfield notices the littlest of things even if it is not significant.

1. Chapter 4: Holden points out issues about Stradlater

1.1. Holden notices Stradlater's blade is rusty and full of lather and hair

1.2. Holden dislikes people complimenting others, "Ackley kept on saying...Coyle was a good build for basketball. God, I hate that stuff" (Salinger 29).

1.3. "but I knew he probably wouldn't. You take a guy like Stradlater, they never give your regards to people" (Salinger 33).

2. Chapter 5: Holden still notices the slightest of things about Ackley.

2.1. "... except stay in his room and squeeze his pimples or something" (Salinger 36).

2.2. "The snow was very good for packing" (Salinger 36).

2.3. "Besides, I'd been to the movies with Broussard and Ackley before. They both laughed like hyenas at stuff that wasn't even funny" (Salinger 37).

2.4. "He started talking in this very monotonous voice, and picking at all his pimples" (Salinger 37).

2.5. "Every time he told it, it was different" (Salinger 37).

3. Chapter 6: Holden gets into a fight with Stradlater

3.1. "When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry. Only I don't go. Im too worried to go." (Salinger 40)

3.1.1. Illustrates Holden noticing and worrying about his worrying preventing him from being in a normal state

4. Chapter 7: Holden leaves Pencey

4.1. " I just kept laying there on Ely's bed, thinking about Jane and all. It just drove me stark staring mad when I thought about her and Stradlater parked somewhere in that fat-assed Ed-Banky's car," (Salinger 48)

4.1.1. Quote shows how even though Jane and Holden have not conversed in a while, Holden is still hung up about her and focuses on her, showing how he's focusing unnecessarily about her and Stradlaters affair. Jane was never his and Holden thus should not be focusing on Jane.

5. Chapter 5: Holden's description of his dead brother, Allie

5.1. "He was left-handed...he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink" (Salinger 37).

6. Chapter 2: Holden's description and thought process of Mr. Spencer

6.1. "What made it even more depressing, old Spencer had on this very sad, ratty old bathrobes anyway"(Salinger 7).

6.2. Holden dislikes old mens' chests and white, unhairy legs.

6.3. Points out Mr. Spencer was picking his nose and he felt that was necessary to tell the readers in how much he disliked it.

6.4. teacher (school)

7. Chapter 3: Holden mentions about Ackley's hygienes over other aspects about him

7.1. when he roomed next to him, Holden has not seen Ackley brush his teeth once.

7.2. "They always looked mossy and awful, and he damn near made you sick if you saw him in the dining room with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and peas or something" (Salinger 19).

7.3. Notices Ackley cleaning his fingernails as he finds it funny because his ears were extremely dirty.

8. Chapter 8: " Usually I like riding on trains, especially at night, with the lights on and the windows so black, and one of those guys coming up the aisle selling coffee and sandwhiches and magazines

8.1. Holden notices small things in life that others wont normally pay mind to.