The catcher in the rye

             The past three weeks I have been reading the novel The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. It takes place back in the middle nineteen hundreds.
             The story is about a College student whom attends college at Pencey University. This is his third school in his many years attending college. His name is Holden Caulfield. The reason being he gets very low grades such as all F's and every once and awhile he may pass a class. At Pencey, he is the manager of the fencing team and all the snobs that attend the college know him as a nobody. Except the people not welcomed by anyone and his roommate is a built football player.
             Holden has two brothers and a sister. His older brothers' name is D.B., he is a writer, and he does screen plays in Hollywood. His other brother, Allie; unfortunately is deceased. He died a couple years before Holden started to attend his second college. Now his sister is a big part of Holden's life because he is very close to her and they share a lot of close issues and moments together. He and his sister are the main characters in this story as you can tell.
             Sex is a big part of Holden's personality. He is always talking about how he necks it with other girls and gets close to doing it with them but he messes up his chances. One time when Holden was in New York he was so drunk and desperate for sex that he asked the hotel elevator guy to get him a prostitute. Minutes later she appeared at his door in the hotel and they talked the whole time instead of having sex. Therefore, as she left he refused to pay her and she came back with the elevator guy, Maurice, and he beat Holden until he got the money for the prostitute. This was a major lesson for Holden Caulfield.
             The reason all this is happening is because he left school three days earlier than he should have and he had to spare some time between then and Wednesday so he could go home and tell
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