The Catcher in the Rye: IRONY

In the Novel the Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger uses irony as the main literary element. This book is written in the point of view as a 16 year old teenager, the irony in this is because this teenager wouldn't be the brightest kid around and he isn't, he has already got kicked out of three soon to be four really nice school, and one of them he left because he thought one of the staff was too much of a phony and he couldn't stand it, his grades are really bad, flunking all class except for english. Another irony in this book was when Holden said he wanted to preserve his child hood innocence, but the thing is it was long gone, he smokes, drinks, and has hookers going to his room very late at night, and gets beat up soon afterward when he spent all his time talking with the hooker and paid her too little.
But my favorite ironic situation was when Sally Hayes went on a date with Holden, at first site Holden felt like marrying her, but ask their date went on it got worse and worse, for Holden at least
but after their date was finished Holden found a new way of saying good bye, and that was telling Sally she was a Pain in the ***, and he just walked away leaving Sally to find her own way home