Themes

Hatred of Phonies Suspicion Toward Authority Figures Disregard for Conventional Social Rules Romanticizing Nature and Longing for Innocence Alienation and Loneliness Failure Anger
 * Themes:**
 * He thinks everyone he can't get along with are phonies
 * Anyone who says a word he doesn't like or does something he doesn't like
 * doesn't really care what people say to him.
 * doesn't believe he has any authority.
 * thinks all of his authority figures are phony.
 * doesn't want to tell his parents that he failed out of school again.