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So, Chapter 7 and 8 further proved my point about the lack of likableness when it comes to Holden Caulfield. In Seven, he wakes up Ackley (also an unlikable character), just to talk to him about nonsense until Ackley understandably tells him to go away (he's just bothering him). Afterwards, he decides to leave early (he was expelled anyway), going on to shout at his dorm, entirely as an attempt to wake them up (a final act of revenge).
As for Chapter 8, my disdain for him is only more so. The majority of the chapter is spent with him lying to a classmate's mother, with him attempting to buy her a drink early on. He tells her his name is Rudolph Schmidt (which is the name of the janitor), he claims he has a brain tumor (as an explanation for why he's leaving), and he talks about how amazing her son is, essentially telling her that he's some exalted mensch of a kid, how he ran for class president and everything (ironically, Holden hates the kid's guts and everything he says is a lie).
Maybe I'm the only one, but I find it really difficult to identify with unlikable people, and there is not a single likable thing about Holden; he hates everyone and everything (save his hat and his sister), he refers to basically everything as a phony (even when it makes no sense in the context), he lies constantly and every time he says anything, I want him to stop. If a character is unlikable, I have no interest in their story. At the moment, Holden Caulfield is doing a pretty bad job of making me interested in the story he won't stop telling me.