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In this passage, Holden crafts a lie about why he’s going home, suggesting that he has a brain tumor that has to be removed. Then, after feeling bad about the lie, he uses an understatement to make the imagined brain tumor seem less serious than it would be in reality. This is an example of how this literary device can be used to make a serious situation less serious in order to make someone feel better.