Stradlater

Stradlater is Holden Caulfield's roommate at Pencey Prep, a handsome, popular teenage boy who represents a kind of phoniness through social and sexual success that Holden Caulfield both envies and despises. Stradlater is friendly and good-natured toward Holden Caulfield, yet Holden Caulfield is deeply ambivalent about him—simultaneously liking him and finding him phony. Stradlater is sexually active and popular with girls, which both fascinates and disturbs Holden Caulfield. When Stradlater dates Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden Caulfield cares about deeply, Holden Caulfield becomes jealous and upset, worried that Stradlater will take advantage of Jane Gallagher sexually.