Holden comes back and gets Phoebe to listen to him. He tells her all about Pencey and the phonies in it and everything he hates. Phoebe sort of snaps and tells Holden that he hates everything. Holden tries to deny it, but he can't think of something he likes when she asks, because he gets side-tracked. He starts to think about the nuns and a boy named James Castle who jumped out of a window at his old school because of being bullied. He was borrowing Holden's sweater at the time. Holden tells Phoebe he likes Allie, but she says it doesn't count because he's dead. Phoebe asks Holden what he really wants to do with his life, and he remembers 'if a body catch a body coming through the rye.' He tells Phoebe that he wants to be on a cliff with a rye field and children playing, and if they get to close to the edge, he'll catch them. Phoebe corrects him that it's 'if a body meet a body coming through the rye.' He seems sort of shocked.
Response- So that's what the title is eh? Very nice... kind of odd, but ok.
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