Although Holden claims that she is "the queen of all phonies," they agree to meet that afternoon to attend a play at the Biltmore Theater. The next morning, Holden, becoming increasingly depressed and in need of personal connection, calls Sally Hayes, a familiar date. Afterward, Holden imagines that he has been shot by Maurice and pictures murdering him with an automatic pistol. Holden insults Maurice, Sunny takes money from Holden's wallet, and Maurice snaps his fingers on Holden's groin and punches him in the stomach. Even though he maintains that he paid her the right amount for her time, she returns with her pimp Maurice and demands more money. Holden, who is a virgin, says he only wants to talk, which annoys her and causes her to leave. His attitude toward the girl changes when she enters the room and takes off her clothes. Following an unpromising visit to a nightclub, Holden becomes preoccupied with his internal angst and agrees to have a prostitute named Sunny visit his room. Holden is disappointed that they are unable to hold a conversation. Holden checks into the Edmont Hotel and spends an evening dancing with three tourists at the hotel lounge.
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In a taxicab, Holden asks the driver whether the ducks in the Central Park lagoon migrate during winter, a subject he brings up often, but the man barely responds. Aboard the train, Holden meets the mother of a wealthy, obnoxious Pencey student, Ernest Morrow, and makes up nice but false stories about her son. Holden intends to stay away from his home until Wednesday when his parents would have received notification of his expulsion. Fed up with the "phonies" at Pencey Prep, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and catches a train to New York. Holden goes to the room of Ackley, who is already asleep, and doesn't give him any attention. When Holden continues insulting him, Stradlater leaves him lying on the floor with a bloody nose. Enraged, Holden punches him, and Stradlater easily wins the fight. When Stradlater returns hours later, he fails to appreciate the deeply personal composition Holden wrote for him about the baseball glove of Holden's late brother Allie who died from leukemia a few years prior and refuses to say whether he slept with Jane. Since Ackley and Mal had already seen the film, they end up just playing pinball and returning to Pencey. That night, Holden decides to go to a Cary Grant comedy with Mal Brossard and Ackley.
He is distressed to learn that Stradlater's date is Jane Gallagher, with whom Holden was infatuated and feels the need to protect. Holden and Stradlater normally hang out well together, and Holden admires Stradlater's physique. Later, Holden agrees to write an English composition for his roommate, Ward Stradlater, who is leaving for a date. Holden, who feels sorry for Ackley, tolerates his presence. Spencer offers him advice and simultaneously embarrasses Holden by criticizing his history exam.īack at his dorm, Holden's dorm neighbor, Robert Ackley, who is unpopular among his peers, disturbs Holden with his impolite questioning and mannerisms. Spencer, who is a well-meaning but long-winded old man. After forfeiting a fencing match in New York by forgetting the equipment on the subway, he says goodbye to his history teacher, Mr. Holden has just learned that he won't be allowed back at Pencey after the Christmas break because he had failed all classes except English. Holden recalls the events of a single night during the previous Christmas, beginning at Pencey Preparatory Academy, a boarding school in Pennsylvania.
After his discharge within a month, he intends to go live with his brother D.B., an author and war veteran with whom Holden is angry for becoming a Hollywood screenwriter. Holden Caulfield, a depressed 17-year-old, lives in an unspecified institution in California after the end of World War II.
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