Last sentence in Catcher in the Rye: "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
These last two sentences from the Catcher in the Rye are very revealing considering the way that Holden has acted throughout the whole novel. He has had his mishaps with other characters like disliking them for their bad habits, like Ackley clipping his fingernails on the floor or popping his pimples in Holden's dorm. He dislikes Stradlater's secret slobiness from him not switching razor blades off shaving his face. He thinks that Sally is pain in the ass from her being a phony herself by talking to other phonies and disagreeing with him. Also he was ver angry at Maurice, the elevator man at the Edmont Hotel for trying to get more money out of him than he said and then punched Holden in the stomach. From Holden saying that he misses these people after he doesn't like them is a pretty strange thing for him to say and makes me think that he has changed for forgiving phonies.
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