So yeah. I think this book shows some extremes of being judgmental, empathetic, and sympathetic. Ackley seems very judgmental calling Stradlater “conceited all the time, and hating everyone for some reason or another. Stradlater comes off as a sympathetic character because he seems to have a very superior attitude, but he is still willing to give a friend his tie if he liked it. If I needed to guess this is because he almost feels sorry for the people that aren’t as perfect as he is. Then the main character Holden (or whatever his name is) seems to be very empathetic. Even though he hasn’t been in the same situations as many of the other characters he seems to understand their feeling in their positions just by thinking about how he would feel. For instance he wrote that letter to his teacher so he wouldn’t feel bad about flunking him because he realized it could have been painful for the teacher to flunk him otherwise. Also how he invited Ackley to go see a movie could be empathy or sympathy, but because Holden seems to consider himself an outcast from the world he may feel he understands Ackley and wants to help him, however it still seems to be more sympathy. Because of how Holden is harder to label than the other charactersit shows how realistic he is.