Being phony is very similar to being fake. It is showing a fake face, putting on a mask, not showing your true self or colors and not being real. When you are being phony you are putting up a front, not being who you really are which is practically lying by assent to everyone you come in contact with. You make up certain aspects of a personality that you think others like and you show it to them. You try to implement many different and contradicting personality traits into your own personality, but they’re not who you really are. The person you are with will determine what mask or persona you want to portray to the world. Being phony will limit yourself in behaving certain ways because you become indecisive, questioning what others will want you to do, not knowing which way to behave because you don’t know how others will react. You don’t know who you are and you have no sense of self. You may become phony because you dislike certain characteristics of your personality, so you try to hide them, showing only the positive; showing what others want. If you dislike yourself you try to find yourself in others. You may become a perfectionist due to low self-esteem, and trying to do only right, seeking acceptance from others so you can accept yourself. Being phony will enable you to run and hide from your problems; hide from who you really are.
I think Holden see’s through people’s faces and their masks; seeing who they really are, and he dislike it. He dislikes people being fake, because he himself is fake. We tend to clash more with people who are more like us, especially if we have a strong, dominate personality. Holden clashes with most people because he feels insecure of himself, and people intimidate him. I assume that he has lots of anxiety and depression, and I assume that he feels threatened by most people. I also think he envies a lot of people, so he becomes fake; he becomes the people he envies because people like them. Holden also has a gift for seeing through people’s lies and their fronts, which results in harsh judgment. I think Holden dislike phony people because he sees himself in them and it scares him. He dislikes them because he dislikes himself.
Holden is a hypocrite. He doesn’t like people being fake and phony, yet he acts the exact same way. He tells people what they want to hear, but he thinks the exact opposite of them. He has learned to kiss up to others, (brown-nosing) and make them believe that he is something he is really not. If others like him and see positive attributes in him, he thinks he will begin to like himself more. He puts on masks, fronts and faces which is the exact same thing he judges other people on.
7 comments:
I strongly agree with this. I think this is right because it's just like you said, it's like putting on a mask. I agree with when you said you run and hide from who you really are.
Nate,
I think that your paper is wonderful. I can’t get over how good you are at wording things. I agree with you paper one hundred and ten percent. You are being fake around other people you end up just creating a new person and living a lie in a way. I hate being around people who they aren’t. I want to get to know who they are then something they have created themselves to be. I can tell when people aren’t being themselves and I love how you can see that Holden can see through them as well.
Dang, This is beyond true. I see so much of this is people these days. I've learned to just leave it up to them to change if they want, because I don't have the power to control others. I have a huge wall and I see myself getting mad at others when they don't take theirs down. We do clash with people like us. Beyond amazing job dude.
♥Elee
-I agree. If you don't want to be seen as a phony then you shouldn't try to act covert or anything in all of your daily doings. you should be genuine and not nice upfront but fake behind their backs.
I like how you explained in the first half what being phony means and broke it down for us. Then you worked your way into how it fits in to the story, and then put your opinion in to the your blog. Over all I think you did a really good job, keep it up.
Nate,
I agree with this:
Being phony is very similar to being fake. It is showing a fake face, putting on a mask, not showing your true self or colors and not being real. When you are being phony you are putting up a front, not being who you really are which is practically lying by assent to everyone you come in contact with. You make up certain aspects of a personality that you think others like and you show it to them. You try to implement many different and contradicting personality traits into your own personality, but they’re not who you really are. The person you are with will determine what mask or persona you want to portray to the world.
I feeel this is very true people do need stop putting on a fake face. I feel people I know respect you more for who you really are and not the fakeness and mask you put on. I like how discriptive you were.
Being phony is a bad thing I think. Because when your pretending to be someone that your not.
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