The Catcher in the Rye2
The Catcher in the Rye is about a man named Holden Caulfield, who is narrating thestory. Holden is in a psychiatric hospital in California, where at the given moment he wasspending his time. He then had a flashback of when he was a young man at the age ofsixteen. The story starts off at Pencey Prep, Holden's present school at which he wasflunking out of. Holden had only a few more days before his expulsion from Pencey, so hehad been paying his final dues to his admired instructors, such as Mr. Spencer, Holden'selderly History teacher. After spending some bothersome hours with Mr. Spencer, Holdenreturned to his room in Ossenburger Memorial Hall. There he was visited by RobertAckley whom he disliked with a great passion, however he still had a conversation withhim about school matters. While having an unpleasant discussion with Ackley, theconversation was then soon interrupted by Ward Stradlater, Holden's roommate.Stradlater notified Holden that he was going on a date with Jane Gallagher that night, an Holden had agreed to write a paper for Stradlater while he was on the date. Aftereating dinner, Holden began to write the paper and while doing so, became immersed in
Holden then took a taxi to an older hotel inwhich he received a rather 'crummy' room. Later that afternoon, Holden arranged to have a date with Sally Hayes but then went to the parkhoping to see his sister Phoebe. After being confused and disturbed about Jane, him andStradlater, Holden decided to go to another night club in Greenwich Village. While he had been maintaining a 'nice' conversation with the woman, Holdensoon had found him self lying about his self and the woman's son just so he could seem tobe gregarious and benevolent, meantime he was snickering at him self that he was beingthe phony that he had always rejected and found to be repulsive. However it seemed that Ackley was neither interested nor concerned about the fight that Page 2the two roommates had together. Holden also considered that girl to be a phony and an imbecile, like most of theworld. was in California being a prostitute. WhenStradlater had arrived back at the dorm, Holden interrogated him about the date he hadwith Jane hoping that Stradlater and Jane did not have a sexual interlude with each other. Holden lost the altercation trying to protect hisold girlfriend. When entering theclub, Holden was put at a deficient table and is not even able to order a drink. Finallyhe had put her on a carousel and sat down in the rain and started to cry out ofdisappointment/frustration/anger/joy whichever, because he was just a confused little boy. Holden then went to thelobby of the hotel and for a while thought about Jane Gallagher and a summer that the twoof them had spent together. Sunday morning Holden met two nuns in a subway restaurant and gave them adonation and ended up having a extremely enjoyable conversation with them.
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