"Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the OTHER SIDE, where there aren't any hotshots, then what's a game about it?"

Holden comments on the "game of life," as only a game for the privileged who were are born in the right side of the game.Holden himself comes from a privileged background and is on the "right side" of the game. His father is a wealthy lawyer and Holden enjoys the finest things in life, like a prep school education. Still he isolates himself from the things he despises, the things that he readily accepts. Although Holden recognizes the hypocrisy of "the Game", he has little problem indulging in what the game offers (money, freedom to take a train and find a prostitute....)

Holden comments on the "game of life," as only a game for the privileged who were are born in the right side of the game.Holden himself comes from a privileged background and is on the "right side" of the game. His father is a wealthy lawyer and Holden enjoys the finest things in life, like a prep school education. Still he isolates himself from the things he despises, the things that he readily accepts. Although Holden recognizes the hypocrisy of "the Game", he has little problem indulging in what the game offers (money, freedom to take a train and find a prostitute....)