When Holden woke up in New York, and after having breakfast, he went to Broadway because he wanted to buy a record called "Little Shirley Beans" for her little ten old years sister Phoebe. He claims that she's a wonderful girl because she understands everything he means when he talks to her, even though she's only a child. During the book, Holden's always complaining of being tired of people phoniness, but in contrast, his sister's childish attitude is one the few things that seems to make him genuinely happy. This fact combined with that his sister totally understands him and that he likes the song "Little Shirley Beans" even it's aimed for children, makes me thing that part of his mental breakdown is he's not enough mature to have a complex comprehension of the world; Holden behaves as child in many occasions and is understood mostly for one of them, so this could be the reason why he says that he liked this song, despite in the book the readers are told he likes the song because sounds obscene.

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