From J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, please provide 4 examples of Holden being treated as an outcast.

One of the first situations where Holden is being left out is during a football game when he doesn't feel like he can go join the rest of his classmates. He decides to watch the game from a hill overlooking the field. He says the following:

"The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing team" (3).

The above passage proves that he was on the hill feeling left out. The next passage explains what led him to be on the hill that night as well as another incident that made him feel ostracized earlier that day: 

"I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway. It wasn't all my fault. . . So we got back to Pencey around two-thirty instead of around dinnertime. The whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train" (3).

Because of this mistake, and how he was treated on the way home, he also feels like he can't join the football game that night. 

Another way Holden feels left out is when he feels lonesome and has no one to connect with. His roommate Stradlater goes on a date with Jane, a girl Holden really likes, and it drives him nuts. He feels so left out that he starts to obsess over Jane. As a result, he feels cast out of her life and also lonely by saying the following:

"All of a sudden, I decided what I'd really do, I'd get the hell out of Pencey--right that same night and all. . . It made me so sad and lonesome" (51).

A fourth time that Holden feels left out is when he is talking to his sister Phoebe and she is disappointed and upset with him for getting kicked out of school again. Holden describes Phoebe as follows:

"When I came around the side of the bed and sat down again, she turned her crazy face the other way. She was ostracizing the hell out of me. Just like the fencing team at Pencey when I left all the goddam foils on the subway" (166).

In this case with Phoebe, feeling left out doesn't always mean not getting an invitation to a party. A person can also feel like an outcast from a person's acceptance. Holden doesn't feel accepted by his parents, his schools, and his girlfriends as well. He doesn't feel like he fits in with life in general. No wonder he wants to run away from all of his problems. Luckily, he finds the help he needs in the end by staying in a hospital in California for awhile.