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.