The following quotes, shows depressed Holden how we feels.
pg. 98<span> “I felt miserable. I felt so depressed, you can’t imagine."</span>He has suicidal thoughts
pg. 104<span> “What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would’ve done it, too.”
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I think when it says you deserve the best because that evokes emotion
is the way the author expresses his attitude through his or her writing