In these chapters, Holden is wandering around the city to escape his lonliness, the heart of all his problems and angst. Even though he is lonely I don't really know or think that he even knows what he's hoping to find by hooking up with random women and going to random nightclubs.
He complains about people being phony, but what does he expect to find by calling some girl he doesn't even know just to have sex with her? If he really wants companionship, he needs to overcome his aversion to confrontation with other people (and his own problems) and call his sister or Jane or his brother D.B.
Holden exhibits qualities of both a child and an adult. He is like an adult because he needs companionship and love to make himself happy but he is like a child because he is lazy in actually pursuing it.
Honestly, adulthood is not something I'm looking forward to. I know that you get more freedom and what not but being a child is so great because you don't have responsibilities to worry about and terrible people to deal with.
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