Hm. I don't identify very closely with any of the characters in Salinger's fiction, sad to say. HOWEVER- both Buddy and Zooey are characters with traits I admire. They both talk/write so well, love so enviably, and Zooey's "unsurpassingly handsome" (am I remembering that verbatim?). In high school I ordered 100 of those personalized pencils, with "Buddy Glass" embossed on them. Still have a few, though high school is sufficiently long gone that the erasers crumble!