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I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddamn subway. It wasnt all my fault. (Salinger 3).
Chapter 2
Visits Mr. Spencer
- Mr. Spencer talks to Holden about his academics, and reads Holdens paper to Holden. - Holden loses interest after Mr. Spencer begins lecturing him about discipline. Gets annoyed and leaves.
But I just couldnt hang around there any longer, the way we were on opposite sides of the pole, and the way he kept missing the bed whenever he chucked something at it, and his sad old bathrobe with his chest showing, and the grippy smell of Vicks Nose Drops all over the place (Salinger 15).
They always looked mossy and awful, and he damn near made you sick if you saw him in the dining room with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and peas or something. Besides that, he had a lot of pimples (Salinger 19).
Chapter 4
Stradlater asks Holden to write a descriptive paper while he is on his date. - Compares Ackleys and Stradlaters hygiene - Holden uneasy that Stradlater has date with Jane Gallagher. - Wants to greet Jane, but doesnt.
He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks hes a real hot-shot, and theyre always asking you to do them a favor (Salinger 27).
You shouldve seen the steaks. They were a little hard, dry jobs that you could hardly even cut. You always got very lumpy mashed potatoes on steak night, and for dessert you got Brown Betty, which no body ate (Salinger 35).
Chapter 6
Stradlater returns around 11:00 PM.
- Stradlater unhappy at Holdens topic for the composition, Holden tears it up. - Pesters Stradlater about date with Jane Gallagher, Stradlater refuses to answer. - Holden strikes, gets pinned, continues insulting, until Stradlater lands one on the face.
It probably hurt him a little bit, but not as much as I wanted. It probably wouldve hurt him a lot, but I did it with my right hand, and I cant make a good fist with that hand. On account of the injury I told you about (Salinger 43).
Chapter 7
Holden goes to spend night with Ackley.
- Cannot sleep, decides to leave Pencey and not wait until Wednesday.
All of a sudden, I decided what Id really do, Id get the hell out of Pencey (Salinger 51).
Holden walks to train station to go to New York City. At a stop at Trenton, a woman boards the train.
- She notices the Pencey Prep sticker, and asks Holden if he knows Ernie Morrow, her son. - Tells lies about Ernie, tells her his name in Rudolf Schmidt, and says he has a brain tumor, and is leaving early for surgery.
She had nice voice. A nice telephone voice, mostly. She shouldve carried a goddamn telephone around with her (Salinger 54).
Chapter 9
Arrives at Penn Station
- Wants to call someone, sister Phoebe probably asleep, brother D.B. in Hollywood, does not feel like calling Jane Gallagher, and Sally Hayess mother hates him. Takes cab to Edmont hotel, looks out window and sees people doing strange things in courtyard, thinks of Faith Cavendish, who he calls to set up a date, but she offers for tomorrow, and Holden hangs up.
Then I thought about calling up this guy that went to the Whooton School when I was there, Carl Luce, but I didnt like him much (Salinger 59).
Chapter 10
Lavender Room nightclub at Edmont Hotel
- Tries to order alcohol his height and grey hair usually allow him to do this - Makes small talk and dances with 3 women from Seattle they are uninterested in him he leaves after paying for drinks
They probably thought I was too young to give anybody the once-over. That annoyed hell out of me youdve thought I wanted to marry them or something (Salinger 70).
Chapter 11
Recollects about Jane Gallagher
- Summer homes in Maine were next door, and met when his mother went to talk to them about their Doberman laying waste on their lawn. - They were close, he showed her the baseball glove, comforted her, etc.
When she was talking she got excited about something, her mouth sort of went in fifty directions, her lips and all. That killed me. And she never really closed it all the way, her mouth (Salinger 77).
Takes cab to Greenwich Village nightclub called Ernies - Listens to Ernie play
- Talks to cab driver, Horwitz, about ducks among other things.
Chapter 12
piano, drinks scotch and soda, meets Lilian Simmons (D.B. used to date her), leaves to get away from her.
Wed get into a goddam movie or something, and right away wed start holding hands, and we wouldnt quit till the movie was over (Salinger 79).
Chapter 13
Walks 41 blocks back to hotel In elevator, operator offers to send prostitute for 5 dollars and Holden accepts Sunny arrives, and Holden just wants to talk, and after seeing her disinterest, he gives 5 dollars and tells her to leave, although Sunny says its a 10 dollar charge.
The trouble was, I just didnt want to do it. I felt more depressed than sexy, if you want to know the truth. She was depressing (Salinger 96).
Boy, I felt miserable. I felt so depressed, you cant imagine. What I did, I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie (Salinger 98).
Calls Sally Hayes in morning to set up date for 2:00 PM. Eats sandwich at bar, sees nuns, talks with them about Romeo and Juliet Donates 10 dollars to them, and realizes he needs money for date
"You think they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do." (Salinger 109).
Travels to ice skating rink to see if Phoebe is there. Goes to Museum of Natural History, sees models of Eskimos and Indians, etc.
"If Phoebe had been there, I probably would have, but she wasn't" (Salinger 122).
Chapter 17
2:00 PM, Holden to Biltmore Hotel to meet Sally, who is late, arriving at 2:10 PM
- After cab ride and show, they go ice skating at Rockefeller Center - Holden begins to rant about phonies and that they should run away together, leaves without Sally
"You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were" (Salinger 126).
Chapter 19 10:00 PM
Meets Carl Luce
- Pesters him about subjects Carl does not want to bring up, and Luce gets annoyed and questions his mental health. - Luce leaves after being annoyed too much.
"You still going around with that same babe you used to at Whooton? The one with the terrific-" (Salinger 144).
Chapter 20
Holden stays at bar and gets drunk. - Calls Sally, insists on talking to her after grandmother says she is asleep. - Leaves a bad impression after they are unable to understand his slurred speech - Tries to make date with lounge singer Valencia and then hat-check girl, who is very nice to him - Goes to Central Park to see ducks. - Running low on money, decides to visit Phoebe.
"She's very affectionate. I mean she's quite affectionate, for a child. Sometimes she's even too affectionate. I sort of gave her a kiss" (Salinger 161).
Chapter 22
Comes back and gets Phoebe to listen to what he has to say
- Holden speaks what will probably happen to him when his parents find out he was expelled. (Military school) - Phoebe asks him what he wants to do with his life, and he mentions lyrics about being catcher in the rye - Phoebe tells him he misquoted a song.
"Allie's dead- You always say that! If somebody's dead and everything, and in Heaven, then it isn't really-" (Salinger 171).
Chapter 23
Calls Mr. Antolini who was Holdens teacher at Elkton Hills, and is shocked that Holden had been expelled again, tells Holden he can stay the night. - He dances with Phoebe, parents come home, he waves smoke away, hides in closet as phoebe is tucked in by mother. - Phoebe gives Christmas money she was saving (A whopping $8.75), and Holden gives her red hunting hat.
In between numbers she's funny as hell. She stays right in position. She won't even talk or anything. You have to stay in position and wait for the orchestra to start playing again" (Salinger 175).
Chapter 24
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is he wants to live humbly for one" (Salinger 188).
Holden arrives at Mr. Antolinis house, after they are done with a dinner party Begin speaking of Holdens downfall as a student, coffee from Mrs. Antolini breaks tension Holden wakes up and Mr. Antolini is stroking his head, which scares Holden and he leaves.
"I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there" (Salinger 213).
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