Blog 9: Holden's Internal Conflicts

The two health issues that Holden imagines are a bullet wound in his guts, and later on having caught an pneumonia. Holden is obviously depressed, and has thoughts of dying. He wonders how people might feel if he dies, for instance, "I started thinking how old Phoebe would feel if I got pneumonia and died." He really thought he might die of an pneumonia, or maybe he wanted to die of an pneumonia. Holden has lost sense of reality and is lost.