Chapters 6-8 & Stuck between two worlds(part1)

Over this weekend, I read chapters six, seven, and eight of The Catcher in the Rye . I was really looking forward to reading these chapters to see what came after chapter five, where Holden told us (the readers) about the death of his brother, Allie. In Chapter six we see Holden come out a little. He gets (some-what) angry at Stradlater and what he and Jane might or might not have done on their "date". At this point you can see that Holden really cares about Jane and that he respects her. Stradlater gets angry at the things that Holden says to him, and ends up beating Holden up. After Holden is beat up, he goes to Ackley and asks if he can stay in his room while his room mate was gone. I think that this says something about Holden, that he goes to people whom he doesn't necessarily like for help (or a form of help). I really think he didn't care if he was beat up because he was getting out of Pency soon. In Chapter eight, Holden takes the train, and meets the mother of one of the phonies at Pency. He engages in a conversation with her and lies about himself. It seems that if he knows that he won't see a person again, he can lie, or if the subject never comes up again, he can lie his way through anything. I think that his lies are a mask in front of his true self that he doesn't want to show anyone. I think that Holden doesn't want to feel emotional about his brother or his family. I think he wants to bury his past; his childhood. He tells himself that he had a bad childhood and he didn't want to talk about it, which is reasonable, because his brother died. I think at that point in his life he felt so overwhelmed with emotion and change that it kind-of made him grow up really quickly. He didn't want it to happen, but I don't think that he feels he can go back to how things were before Allie died, like he didn't want Allie to be jealous or something (that might be a stretch). He had to grow up so fast that he feels old and busy and not a child, while some of his actions could be called "childish", I would probably say more like immature, which is similar. I think he feels he should be like an adult in some ways, but it is obviously not working well for him. In reality, he really is stuck in between two worlds; of adulthood and childhood. He is not innocent as a child, but he makes a lot of decisions like a child, his age is right in between, but he feels old inside, he has a lot of responsibilities put on him (that most likely he doesn't do). He can't fit in either world, and he feels alone; alienated from both. {the evidence from ch 9-11, connection to us, and his place on the path on next post (part 2)}