Although he recognizes that Chapter 3. Holden returns to his dorm, thinking as he goes about how good he is at lying Alone in his room, Holden reads while wearing his new red hunting cap, which he bought while in New York Ackley asks Holden about the fencing match in New York, and Holden is forced to tell him that He then asks Holden if he can borrow his houndstooth jacket, but Holden hesitates to answer, instead wondering where Chapter 4.
Having nothing better to do, Holden keeps Stradlater company as he shaves. Once more, Holden says he should go downstairs to say hello to Jane, and Stradlater asks him why Holden asks what Stradlater and Jane are going to do, and Stradlater says they might go Chapter 5.
After dinner, Holden convinces his friend Mal Brossard to let Ackley come see a movie with them. The assignment is Chapter 6. Puffing away on his cigarette, Holden asks Stradlater what happened on his date with Jane, but Stradlater refuses to say.
Unable to resist, Holden asks Stradlater if he and Jane had sex. This offends Stradlater, who refuses to answer After Stradlater leaves, Holden puts on his red hunting hat and looks at his face in the mirror, thinking Chapter 7. Annoyed but too intrigued Chapter 8. On the train to New York, a woman sits next to Holden. She notices his Pencey bag and says that her son is a boy named Ernest Chapter 9.
Before Holden checks in to a room in the Edmont, he takes off his hunting hat because Once again, Holden thinks about calling Jane, but he finds the idea exhausting because he would have to Chapter Holden decides to go downstairs to the Lavender Room, where the hotel serves drinks and hosts Once in the Lavender Room, Holden tries to order a scotch and soda, but the waiter asks to see some proof This offends him, but he still sits In the hotel lobby, Holden thinks again about Jane Gallagher and Stradlater, hoping that nothing happened between them on their When he asks about the ducks As Holden takes in the scene, a young woman named Lillian Simmons approaches him.
Lillian used to As Holden thinks about his lost gloves and his own cowardliness, he becomes more and more depressed While taking the elevator back to his hotel room, Holden meets Maurice, the elevator operator. Maurice offers to send a prostitute to his room for Back in his hotel room, Holden waits for Maurice to send a prostitute.
Before long, a young woman named Sunny arrives Alone in his hotel room once again, Holden starts talking aloud to Allie. He does this sometimes when he feels very depressed. Unable to sleep, Holden lights a cigarette and sits on the bed smoking until a knock sounds on the When Holden wakes up the next morning after only a few hours of sleep , he thinks once Holden checks out of the hotel and goes to Grand Central Station to store his bags Holden decides to buy a record for Phoebe.
The album is for children, and Holden knows Holden goes to Broadway to buy theater tickets for his date with Sally. He despises the Holden gets tickets for him and Sally to go to a play starring several famous actors Having secured theater tickets, Holden goes to the park to find Phoebe.
Holden thinks about how comforting it is that the displays in the Museum of Natural History As he waits, Holden suspects that Sally only wants to go skating because the rink gives girls a small Holden stops into a drugstore for a sandwich after leaving Sally. Once again, he goes into Holden takes out his address book and sifts through it, hoping to find somebody who might Holden thinks about the books D. When Luce arrives, Holden points out the group of men at the other end of the bar and asks Holden stays at the Wicker Bar and gets drunk.
His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class.
They really meant it. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. Sitting in his hotel room in New York, Holden feels he is sunk, and he starts talking to Allie. Hurry up. I did. By the time Stradlater returns from his date with Jane, Holden is sure that he has slept with her, and Stradlater helps him to think so, without being actually caddish.
Stradlater asks for the composition; he is furious when he reads it, because it is about a baseball glove rather than a room or a house. Holden tears the composition up. He has a fight with Stradlater and gets a bloody nose. Holden goes to say goodbye to Mr. Spencer, his nice old history teacher. It worries the boy that while his teacher is saying edifying valedictory things to him, he becomes acutely concerned about the winter quarters of the ducks in the Central Park lagoon.
I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away. On his second night, he has an irresistible impulse to go to Central Park and see what the ducks are doing.
In his avidity to find them, he pokes in the grass around the lagoon, to see if they are sleeping there, and nearly falls in the water. No ducks. Society and his own body are telling him that it is time for him to change. He is attracted to the trappings of adulthood: booze, cigarettes, the idea of sex, and a kind of independence.
But he despises the compromises, loss of innocence, absence of integrity, and loss of authenticity in the grown-up world. He seems best at the rites of passage smoking and drinking that are themselves artificial if not self-destructive.
Despite his limited experience, his attitude toward women is actually admirable and mature. He stops making sexual advances when a girl says "No. In his confusion, he sees this behavior as a weakness that may even call for psychotherapy. His interactions with the prostitute Sunny are comic as well as touching, partly because they are both adolescents trying to be adults.
Although Sunny is the more frightening of the two, neither belongs there. Holden is literally about to crash. Something about his discontent, and his vivid way of expressing it, makes him resonate powerfully with readers who come from backgrounds completely different from his. It is tempting to inhabit his point of view and revel in his cantankerousness rather than try to deduce what is wrong with him.
The obvious signs that Holden is a troubled and unreliable narrator are manifold: he fails out of four schools; he manifests complete apathy toward his future; he is hospitalized, and visited by a psychoanalyst, for an unspecified complaint; and he is unable to connect with other people.
We know of two traumas in his past that clearly have something to do with his emotional state: the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of one of his schoolmates. In almost every case, he rejects more complex judgments in favor of simple categorical ones. Holden is a virgin, but he is very interested in sex, and, in fact, he spends much of the novel trying to lose his virginity.
He feels strongly that sex should happen between people who care deeply about and respect one another, and he is upset by the realization that sex can be casual.
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