holden caulfield or jim steele?

after i read through chapter fifteen, i began to realize a deeper meaning to holden's actions. when i thought about how much holden talked to us about girls and how little he actually talked to them in person, or his many encounters with random people who got to know him as some made-up character, though highly amused with his endless babbling of nonsense, i came to the conclusion that he lives in two worlds. his own, of course, and society.

what he does in society is stay low; he doesn't care what people think, he just wants to get on with his life. nothing in society can make him or break him, whatever he wants to do, he does. however, he manages to act in society as someone else. his guarded personality and great imagination create his many personas and he feels perfectly comfortable chatting up a storm with strangers - as long as they don't know who the real holden is. on the other hand, the lone world that holden lives in, is the majority of what we read about. we see holden's sensitive side and gain the knowledge of his desires and fears; something that none of the other characters in the book really experience. nobody other than the readers really know that he is a virgin and said no to the prostitute (well, other than the prostitute and the elevator man) or that he's still grieving over his brother's untimely death. nobody understands that holden has so much compassion for his little sister, phoebe, or that he thinks movies suck. people only see holden's facade and perhaps this is the reason why they generalize or stereotype him the way he says they do. anyhow, this shows me that holden wants these two worlds separate. he loves his fantasy world, where everything he tells us is the truth. holden doesn't want to become involved in society because he's scared of what might happen if he does. he sees life differently than the rest of us and until we read more, it's unclear to me whether he'll let these two worlds collide.