chapter 16

After he eats he goes on a walk and starts thinking about how selfless the nuns are and how he doesnt know anyone like that. He starts looking for a record called "Little Shirley Beans" for his sister phoebe. The record is for little kids but he likes it because the lady that sings it does not sing in a cute voice but a rough one.He starts to think about Phoebe again and how even though she is only 10 she always seems to understand him. He sees a little boy walking in the street singing "if a body catch a body coming through the rye." Seeing this little boy cheers him up and he decides to call Jane, but when he calls her mother answers and he hangs up. He goes to buy the tickets for the show called I Know My Love with the Lunts in it. He is not really looking forward to seeing this show but he knows that Sally will like it.

Holden seems to get depressed by the littlest things and he becomes happy by the littlest things. He seems very moody espically for a boy of his age.

chapter 15

The next day Holden calls Sally Hayes and asks her if she wants to go to see a show with him and she agrees. he checks out of the hotel, scared he might see maurice again, but he doesnt. He describes his mother a little, saying that she hasnt been the same since his brother Allie died. He worries that when his parents hear that he was expelled that it will be hard on his mother.He seems to care about her a lot. Holden goes to eat breakfast and while he is eating he meets two nuns. They are going to be schoolteachers, he starts talking to one of them about romeo and juliet. Even though Holden is not really religious he decides to give the nuns 10 dollars. after they leave he feels bad about only giving them 10 dollars even though he needs money to pay for his date.He says that money always makes people depressed.

Holden does not seem to really like Sally, he just wants someone to talk to. He mentions how his mother has not been the same since the death of his brother. I am guessing that none of his family has been the same since his death.

Chapter 14

Holden sits in his room and starts thinking about Allie again and how one time he would not let Allie come with him and his friend to go shoot their BB gun. He still feels bad for not letting Allie come with them. He finally gets in bed, he thinks about praying but he is not very religious so he decides not to. He hears a knock at his door and opens it to find Maurice the elvator guy and sunny standing there. Maurice says Holden still owes him five dollars, Holden said that he said it was only five dollars and he is not going to pay him the five dollars. Maurice gets mad and pins him up against the wall and Sunny takes the money out of his wallet. Holden starts to make insults at maurice and this makes maurice very mad and he punches him in the stomach and then leaves. Holden starts to imagine himself as a movie character that is taking his revenge on maurice after being shot in the stomach. He finally manages to go to sleep, but ony for a little while.

Holden imagines beating up people a lot when they do something that makes him angry. He does this because he knows he is not actually brave enough to do it in real life so he has to imagine he is.

chapter 13

Holden walks all the way back to the hotel and while he is walking he thinks about his gloves that got stolen. he starts thinking about confronting the person that stole them and getting very angry and even punching them. He admits though that he is a coward and does not like violence. in the elvator going up to his room the elevator oporator says he will send him up a prositute for 5 bucks. Holdens says he would like that so while he is waiting he is thinking that his lack of aggression is the reason that he has never slept with anyone. Finally the prostitute arrives, her name is Sunny. She is not very friendly and has a very high voice. she takes off her dress and sits on his lap.When she does this he becomes very nervous and makes up another lie that he had an operation and has not yet recovered from it. He asks her if she just wants to talk, and she gets kind of mad and says that she got woken up in the middle of the night for nothing. He asks her to leave and pays her the five bucks. She tries to tell him that he owes her ten but he refuses to pay ten and she leaves.

Holden did not really want to have sex with the prostuite, he just wanted someone to talk to. He has never gotten over the death of his brother Allie. He is becoming more and more depressed and hates the whole world because of his death.

Chapter 12

Holden decides to go to a nightclub called Ernies, a place he used to go with his brother D.B. His cab drivers name is Horwitz. Holden starts talking to him and likes him. He asks him if he know where the ducks go in the winter. To Holdens surprise the cab driver gets angry at this question. At the club Holden listens to Ernie play and is not very impressed. he gets a table and is finally able to order alchol without being asked to show his ID. He orders a drink and starts listiening to other peoples conversation. He says their conversations are depressing and phony. He sees a girl that his brother dated and she comes over and starts talking to him. She is very annoying and in order to get away from her he says he has to meet someone, so he is forced to leave the nightclub.

Holden is always saying that everyone around him is phony. He is also always saying how depressed he is.

Chapter 11

As Holden leaves the lavander room he starts thinking about Jane again. He mentions how their summer homes where right next to each other, and how he met her mother after his mom confronted her because their dog kept peeing in their yard. He and Jane became very good friends, she was the only one that he showed Allies baseball mit to. One time Janes stepfather asked Jane for some cigarretes and she didnt answer him. after he left Jane began to cry, and Holden held her and then began to kiss her. this was the only time their relationship got physical, except for when they held hands. he said when you held Janes hand all you knew was that you were happy. When he thinks about this he suddenly gets upset and goes back to his room. he is not tired though so he gets a taxi.

Holden and Jane had a very close friendship,and it seems like Holden wants them to be more than friends. She is very important to him, because she is the only one who he talks about Allie with. When he was with her he was always happy, unlike with most of the other people he hung out with.

Chapter 10

Holden is unable to sleep so he puts on some nicer clothes and goes down to the lavander room, a night club in the hotel. He thinks about calling his sister Phobe again and gives a description of her. She is similar to his brother Allie, she has red hair and is very smart. He tells about the time they went to a movie, even though he susposedly hates movies he has seen many and makes comments on all of them. He also says that Phobe likes to write stories about a girl named Hazel. The only thing he does not like about Phobe is that sometimes she can get to emotional. He ends up not calling her. In the nightclub he tries to order alcohol, he says he is often able to get drinks because of his height and gray hair. This time the waiter refuses to give him some. He sees three women at a table, none of them are very pretty, but he flirts and dances with all of them. They laugh at him and seem uninterested in his flirting with them. They are more cuncerned about the movie stars they think could come in at any minuet. Holden lies to one of the girls and tells them that he sees Gary Cooper, she then goes back and tells the other girls and they all get very excited. They leave and Holden pays for all of their drinks and then leaves.

Holden is always saying how he hates movies, but it seems like he has seen many. He just thinks everyone in the movies is a phony, that is why he acts like he hates all movie and is mad at D.B. for going to Hollywood because that is where all of the huge phonies are.

Chapter 9

When Holden gets off the train he wants to call someone because he is feeling very lonely. He cant think of anyone to call though because he brother is in Hollywood, his sister is asleep and he doesnt want to talk to his parents. He thinks about calling Jane, but then says he isnt in the mood, or this other girl, but her mother hates him. So he ends up not calling anyone, instead he gets a cab and goes to a hotel. he tries to talk to the cab driver, he asks him where the ducks go in the winter. The driver gets kind of mad, he thinks its a stupid question. When he is in his hotel room he looks out the window and sees some people doing strange things. One guy is putting on womens clothing, and in another room a boy and girl are spitting water at each others faces. Watching this Holden feels very lonely and calls up a girl he has never meet before to come over and have drinks with him. She says she cant because she needs her sleep. She says she can come tomorrow, but Holden says no and hangs up.

Right now Holden is feeling very lonley. I think he just called that girl because he wanted to talk, not because he wanted to do anything with her. Holden seems to get lonley quit often, he is always trying to talk with someone or trying to think of someone to call.

Chapter 8

Holden walks to the train staion and when he gets on the train he meets an older lady that happens to be one of the mothers of a boy that goes to Pency, Ernest Morrow. Holden does not like Ernest, but he starts lying and telling his mother that he is a very popular and could have been class president but he did not want anyone to nomminate him. Holden does not tell her his real name, he gives her the name of the janitor. Then when she asks him why he is leaving Pency early he tells her he is having an oporation because he has a brain tumor. After he tells her this she gets very concerned and Holden feels kind of bad for lying so much. He tries to get her to go get a drink with him. She says no and that the the place where you get the drinks is probably closed since it is so late.

Holden has a very bad problem with lying. Practically everything he said to that women was a lie. It is also very weird that he was flirting with an older woman that was one of his classmates mothers.

Chapter 7

Holden goes into Ackleys room and talks to him for awhile. He asks Ackley if he can sleep in his roommates bed, because he is gone for the weekend. Ackley says he does not think its a good idea, and then Holden calls him a prince. He tries to fall asleep in Ackleys room, but he cant stop thinking about Jane and what Stradlater might have done with her. Holden wakes up Ackley to ask him if you have to be Catholic to join a monastery. Ackley is very angry at Holden for waking him up to ask such a stupid question. Holden decides to leave because he is getting sick of Ackleys phoniness. Holden decides to leave and go to New York that night and stay in a hotel for awhile until his parents get the news that he was expelled. He packs up all his stuff and before he leaves he yells very loudly "sleep tight ya morons." He says he bets that he woke up everyone on that floor.

Holden is always asking a lot of weird questions that no one would ask. He also criticises everyone he meets or even just sees. He seems to think that he is the only normal one and everyone else is a fake or phony.

Chapter 6

Stradlater gets back from his date with Jane. he reads the paper Holden wrote and starts to get very angry because Holden did not write about what he told him to. His tells Holden that he is not surprised that he got kicked out of Pency because he never follows the directions the teachers give. Holden gets kind of mad and takes the paper he wrote and tears it up.Things start to get a little tense, Holden asks Stradlater about his date with Jane. Stradlater wont tell him any of the details, so Holden starts to attack him, but Stradlater is much stronger than him and pins him to the floor, and tries to get him to stop, but Holden just keeps on insulting Stradlater and stradlater finally gets so mad he punches him in the nose. When Stradlater sees all the blood he becomes worried that he will get in trouble. Holden goes into Ackleys room and wakes him up, the blood still all on his face.

You can tell from this chapter that Holden has strong feelings for Jane, and is worried that Stradlater did something with her. He cant get her off his mind.

Chapter 5

Holden goes to dinner,it is steak. He thinks they only have steak so that their mothers will be impressed when they ask what they had for dinner and they say steak. He and one of his friends decide to go to a movie. Holden asks if it would be ok if Ackley comes with them. his friend does not seem too thrilled, but says he can come along. They go into the city,but end up not watching a movie because Ackley and his other friend have already seen the movie. So instead they just go and eat some burgers and then go back to Pency.After they get back Ackley goes into Holdens room again and starts squeesing his pimples again. He finally leaves when Holden starts working on Stradlaters english paper. He is suppossed to write a discription about a room or house, but instead he writes about his brother Allies baseball glove. he starts talking about Allie and how he was a smart, nice and innocent child. He talks about the night Allie died and how he slept in the garage and broke all the windows in it with his bear hands. You can tell he really misses Allie and is struggling because of his loss.

In this chapter you learn a lot about Holdens brother that died. You really get the sense that he was close to his brother and has never been the same since his death, and probably never will be. I think Holdens family was a very happy one before his brother died, but since his death the whole family has changed.

chapter 4

Holden goes with Stradlater and talks to him while he shaves. Holden compares Stradlaters hygiene habits with Ackleys. He says that Ackley has poor hygiene and is not very attractive, and Stadlater is very good looking and has good hygiene, but he does not keep his things very clean. while they are talking Stradlater asks Holden to write a composition for him because he wont have time to do it on his own. Holden asks Stradlater who his date is and he tells him a girl named Jane and Holden realizes that he knows the girl and he seems to care a lot about her. Holden tells him that they played checkers together and she always kept her kings in the back because she liked how they looked. Stradlater is uninterested in what Holden is saying. Holden doesn't like it that Sradlater is talking Jane out because Holden knows what he does with girls. Holden talks about going and saying hi to Jane, but decides not to because he is not in the mood. After Stradlater leaves Holden cant stop thinking about Jane. Ackley comes back into his room and stays there until dinnertime.

chapter 3

When Holden gets back to his dorm he starts reading a book. While he is reading his book he gets this guy named Ackley comes in. his room is right next door. Not many people like Ackley.He has a lot of pimple and does not brush his teeth. Holden thinks he is very annoying because he is always barging into his room and going through his stuff. Holden stops reading becuase he cant concentrate with Ackley in the room. Ackley starts cutting his nails in Hoden's room and this makes him very mad. He tells him to stop, he finally does after Holden yells at him. Holden trys to get him to leave but he doesnt take the hint. Finally Holdens roomate Stradlater walks into the room. Ackley does not like Stradlater so he finally leaves. Stradlater has a date tonight and tells Holden he wants to shave before he goes.

chapter 2

Holden goes into Spencers room and sees him lying there in his bathrobe and it smells like nose spray. He does not really like seeing old people especially in their bathrobe. He goes in and sits on the bed, and Spencer starts talking to him about his grades. He tells him to get his paper he wrote on Egyptians. Holden does not want to but he does it anyway. Spencer starts reading the paper out loud. Spencer kind of feels bad for failing Holden and asks him what he would have done if he was in his position. Holden says he would have done the same thing. Spencer then starts talking about Holden's future. Holden does not like this and makes up some lie and goes back to his dorm.

The Catcher In the Rye Chapter 1

Holden Caulfield is the one who is telling the story about his life. He doesnt tell you anything about his early childhood or his family, except that his older brother D.B. is a Hollywood writer.He Starts talking about the school he went to called Pencey Prep. He doesnt reall like the school. He thinks everyone is stuck up and cocky. He got kicked out of Pencey because he was failing four out of his five subjects. He was watching the big football game on top of a hill. He wasnt really interested in the game he just wanted to say his goodbyes. It is hard for him to say goodbye even if he doesnt like the place. He goes to see one of his teachers Mr. Spencer.