I just wrote this in an essay for english....I'm not quite sure what it means....
Holden prefers to have this epitome of perfection in his mind rather than face the real thing, because seeing or talking to her might shatter his fragile cloud of misconceptions. Holden's imagination is the only way he sees to solve his dilemmas, because he is alienated by reality. The past also offers a safe haven for Holden, the these two together form a mind troubled by making self-fallacies, discontent with his own life lead Holden to go into a cycle of creating his own perceptions, and acting upon his own microcosm with utter omniscience, taking both the r