Chapter 21

Holden gets to his house and sneaks into the room because he doesn't know where his parents are and goes and talks to Phoebe. She sleeps in D.B.'s room when he isn't there. When he gets to Phoebe, he watches her for a while and snoops around at her school supplies. He wakes her up and she's really happy to see him, but then realizes he is home early and probably got kicked out again. She can't stop saying "Dad will kill you" and does the whole 'I'm ignoring you but I know you are still there' move and Holden leaves to get more cigarettes.

Response- Phoebe is such a cute kid, but she needs to listen sometimes!

Chapter 20

Once Luce is gone, Holden gets hammered. He calls Sally up [ha!] and wakes her and her grandma up. He hits on a couple of girls at the bar and then decides to go see where the ducks go at the park. On the way there he drops the record he bought for Phoebe and gets pissed/depressed. When he is at the pond, Holden imagines what would happen if he were to die of pneumonia and what his funeral would be like. He states that he missed Allie's funeral because of breaking all of the windows with his hands. Holden remembers going to his grave sometimes. He then really wants to talk to Phoebe and decides to risk getting caught going home.

Response- That's terrible that he missed Allie's funeral! Maybe that is a factor of him being depressed some of the time..

Chapter 19

Holden meets Luce at the Wicker Bar and Holden thinks about when he was an advisor at Whooton and Luce would tell all of the boys about sex. So when he arrives, he keeps bringing up sex and Luce starts to get pissed off and tells him he should see a psychoanalyst. Holden remembers that Luce's dad is a psychoanalyst and asks him if he's ever been tested. Soon Luce leaves.

Response- Why would anyone want to hang out with that phony idiot? He seemed like such a prick....

Chapter 18

So Holden leaves the rink and goes and gets something to eat. He starts thinking about Jane again, and calls her. She doesn't pick up though. He thinks about how he once saw her dance with this total prick and she defended him, saying he had an inferiority complex. He also calls an old friend, Carl Luce, to meet him for a drink later, and he accepts. Holden has a lot of time to pass, so he goes to see a movie, that was about the war, so he is thinking about he army when going to meet Luce. D.B. told Holden that the army sucks, but yet is great. At the Radio City Music Hall (the movie) Holden remembers the drum player that Allie and he would notice playing. The drummer hardly played, but he always looked like he was having a good time.

Response- I'm still jazzed up about him throwing Sally to the curb! Anyway, Holden seems to be getting more and more depressed... because he's talking about Jane and Allie in almost (if not every) chapter...

Chapter 17

At 2, Holden goes to meet Sally, but she's late. Holden mentions that she looks fine though, so he forgives her for being late. They get in a taxi, and start making out. When they are at the show, Holden gets aggravated because the actors are all phonies. Then Sally starts flirting with some guy she's met before. They go ice skating, and Sally gets one of these outfits to wear, and she looks like a total skank in, but Holden finds it attractive. When they take a break, Holden sort of snaps and starts venting about everything! Phonies, school, and how lonely he feels. He then gets kinda crazy and tells Sally that they should just run away together. She shuts him down and they start getting pissed at each other, and then Holden just calls her a royal pain in the ass. She starts to cry and Holden gets so fed up that he just leaves her.

Response- HA! That's what she deserves! She was so annoying to read about...wow.

Chapter 16

After breakfast, Holden takes a walk and goes and buys a record for Phoebe called Little Shirley Beans. He mentions how it's good because a black lady sings it and she makes it sound good, not stupid. Holden then thinks about how Phoebe is such a good kid. While walking, Holden hears a kid singing, "if a body catch a body coming through the rye" and feels refreshed about untainted games of kids. He then gets tickets for the date, and goes to see if he can find his sister at the Park because she plays there on Saturdays... but then realizes its Sunday. So he goes to the Museum of Natural History, where nothing changes, so it's a great place. He thinks about all of the times his classes at school came to the museum and nothing changed, but they did.

Response- Holden is such a loner! I'm glad he has something planned that doesn't deal with prostitutes or booze though... haha.

Chapter 15

When Holden wakes up, he calls up Sally Hayes, a girl he's known for a long time... and only recently discovered that she is annoying. They get a date set up for the afternoon: going to the movies, which Holden says he hates but I bet he doesn't. Holden goes and puts his bags in this box type thing at the Central Station and goes and gets breakfast. While eating, Holden meets 2 nuns and feels sort of bad for them, and gives them 10 dollars for the Salvation Army. They talked about Romeo and Juliet and when they got up to leave, Holden accidentally blew smoke in their faces because he was smoking, and he felt like a total jerk.

Response- It's weird how Holden's attitude sort of changed towards the nuns... is it just because they are nuns or what?

Chapter 14

The chapter starts out with Holden smoking and thinking about a time when he didn't let Allie come play with him and his friend Bobby. He started talking out loud to Allie, telling him that he could come with them and play. A little later Holden hears a knock on the door and it's the elevator guy, Maurice and Sunny. They came to get the other 5 bucks because apparently Maurice said $10 the first time and they wanted it now. So after a little arguing, Maurice holds Holden against the wall so that Sunny can get the 5 bucks and Holden starts insulting Maurice... so he punches Holden in the stomach. They leave, and Holden acts like he's a character in a movie, in the mob, going to go get revenge on Maurice because he shot him in the stomach. Holden then crawls into bed and sleeps.

Response- Maurice sounds like a total jerk that needs to be punched himself. I feel bad for Holden!

Chapter 13

Holden walks back to the hotel after leaving Ernie's... all 41 blocks! It was cold, and Holden got to thinking about how his gloves got stolen at Pencey, and imagined how he would confront the jerk that stole them and beat him up. Holden then admits that he isn't the fighter type, he's "yellow." Neither a fighter or a lover, just there. When he gets into the elevator at the hotel, the elevator man asked if Holden wanted a whore for the night for $5. Holden, feeling lonely and depressed, accepted. Holden goes to his room and thinks about his virginity and how he is almost nervous about the chick coming up. When she gets there, Holden notices that she looks his age. Her name is Sunny and she takes off her dress when Holden just wants to talk, and then Holden makes an excuse that he is recovering from his operation on his "clavichord." She gets all pissy and pays her the 5 bucks even though she says it was 10. He doesn't give her 10 though.

Response- A prostitute!? Holden, the little lonely stud... poor guy. He just wanted to talk to the impatient tramp.

Chapter 12

Holden calls a cab and heads to a nightclub called Ernie's. On the way there, Holden asks this cab driver where he thinks all the ducks go in Central Park during the winter time and this cab driver gets really into it. He is more worried about the fish though. And Holden gets tired of talking about it. When Holden gets to Ernie's, named after a piano player that is good, but he knows he is good, so he's a phony. When Holden finally gets in, he gets seated in the middle of a bunch of jerks. He orders a scotch and soda, his favorite drink. Later, he sees a lady named Lillian who used to date D.B. and keeps asking him questions about D.B. and Holden gets so annoyed with her. He says that he was so annoyed that he had to leave because of seeing her.

Response- Wow, it's not like Lillian was annoying or anything. The guy she was with sounded annoyed too, which is great. Haha.

Chapter 11

When Holden leaves the Lavender Room, Jane jumps into his mind. He thinks about all of the times they were together and reminiscences about things from golfing with her to her dog. He remembers about the time they first met when her dog kept peeing on Holden's lawn and Holden's mother freaked on Jane's mother. He also thinks about the time they were playing checkers and her step-dad came out hassling her for cigarettes and she wouldn't answer him. So when he left she started to cry and Holden comforted her. Another thing he thinks about is how when you hold Jane's hand you are happy. Holden goes back to his room and looks to see if the perverts are still awake out his window but they weren't. He wasn't tired yet, so he grabbed a taxi and left.

Response- Aww, Holden was so sweet to Jane!! He must really, really, really like her!!