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Chapter 1 - Charlotte  The novel begins with the voice of the narrator, seventeen-year old Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield tells his story while staying at a rest home where he has been since he had his nervous breakdown.

The first thing the reader notices is Holden’s rebellious nature when he says that he will not tell about his “lousy childhood… and all that David Copperfield kind of crap.” Instead, he describes his parents as nice, but “touchy as hell”. He also mentions his older brother, D.B., who is working in Hollywood as a writer, but he doesn’t respect D.B., because he felt that his brother sold himself for the sake of earning money.

Holden begins to talk about himself from the time when he was expelled from the school he attended, called Pencey Prep. Furthermore, he tells about his dissatisfaction with this. He thinks that too many of the people at Pencey are “phonies”, a negative term he uses to describe things that exhibits some sort of human frailty.

The end of the chapter includes Holden’s retreat from the big football game with Saxon Hall, to his dorm room. Holden is not attending this game, because he had just returned from New York from a fencing match, and he realized that he had left the foils on the subway.

At the end, Holden admits that he has been kicked out of the school because of his poor grades. Before he leaves school, he goes to say good-bye to Mr. Spencer, his history teacher.

Chapter 2 - Philip 

Holden’s history teacher, Mr. Spencer, dropped Holden a note telling him to stop by his little house before leaving Pencey. Mr. Spencer has a very bad flu, and sits in his bedroom wearing only his bathrobe and half open pajamas. Holden mentions his bumpy chest smelling Nose drops and complains about how he can’t stand it many times in this chapter, and he also mentions how filthy his room is. The old Mr. Spencer is after nothing else than to lecture Holden, and to making him think about how this makes him feel. When Holden is asked if he had talked to any other teacher about this he sais that he did, and that they talked about how life wasn’t a game. This sets old bumpy chested Mr. Spencer onto another mission, and he sais: "//Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the// other //side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game//." Since Holden has been kicked out of his fourth school, naturally, Mr. Spencer starts worrying about him, but Holden denies that he is in the need for help by saying that he is just going through a phase, and that anyone goes through phases. Don’t they?

Chapter 3 - Vilde

Holden begins this chapter saying he is the most terrific liar you ever saw. He then proceeds to talk a little bit about a preacher named Ossenburger, who he calls a phony, and a small incident at a school he used to go to. Everyone else is down at the football game, and so Holden returns to his room alone. He puts on a red hunting hat he had bought in New York that same morning, and reads a bit in a book. “I´m quite illiterate, but I read a lot” he says, and mentions how he reads a lot of classical books, and also a couple of authors he likes. While reading, Holden is interrupted by Ackley, the guy who lives in the room next to him. Ackley is rather ugly, doesn´t brush his teeth too often, and is not very popular. Once in Holden´s room he starts touching Holden´s personal things, which Holden finds rather annoying. The two of them talk for a while though, and Holden also “horses around” a little bit. It becomes clear that Ackley doesn´t care much for Stradlater, but Holden defends his roommate. When Stradlater returns to the room, Ackley leaves.

Chapter 4 - Nooria Holden joins Stradlater down in the men's restroom while he is shaving and getting ready for his date. While sitting on the washbowl next to Stradlater, Holden thinks about Stradlater's qualities. He describes him as a slob who never cleans anything. According to Holden, Stradlater is madly in love with himself, but he is pretty handsome too. Then Stradlater asks Holden to do him a favour. He wants Holden to write an English composition for him, and Holden agrees on it. Holden repeatedly asks Stradlater about whom he is going out with, and Stradlater tells him Jane Gallegher. Full of shock, Holden begins to think about his friend Jane Gallegher, who lived next door to him last summer, and they used to play checkers. Holden mentions a couple of times that he should go downstairs to say hello to Jane, but instead he goes up in his room.

The students gets steak for dinner at Saturday nights. Parents are normally visiting on Sundays, and the principal wants them to be impressed when they hear that their kids eat steak for dinner. After dinner, Mal Brossard invites Holden to the movies. Holden accept, and suggest that they should invite Ackley too. He never do anything on Saturday nights. Ackley wants to know who´s coming other than Holden when he get invited. He don't like Mal, but he comes anyway. After the movies, Ackley hang out in Holden's room. Ackley starts talking about this girl he had sex with. Holden knows he's lying, because ha have told him the story many times before, and it's always different. Finally, Holden tells Ackley to go, since he have to write a composition for Stradlater. Ackley leaves, and Holden sits down with Stradlater's typewriter. He can't think of a room or a house to describe, so he decides to write about his dead brother Allie's baseball mitt. He was two years younger and had leukemia. He was intelligent and had very red hair. When he died, Holden slept in the garage, and he broke all the windows with his fists. After Holden is done with the composition, he looks out of the window for a while. He cam hear Ackley snore in the other room, and he feels very sorry for him.
 * Chapter 5 - Elida**

Chapter 6 - Rahela

Stradlater barges in the room, coming home from his date with Jane. Holden hands him the composition he’s written to him. Stradlater does not like it; saying it has nothing to do with the subject, and tells Holden it’s no wonder he’s been expelled. Holden becomes angry and tears the composition into pieces. Afterward, Holden goes to lie on his bed and smokes a cigarette. He starts asking Stradlater questions about his date with Jane, but Stradlater does not want to tell him all the details. This makes Holden angrier and he tries to knock the toothbrush out his mouth, which he had at the time. Only, he fails and Stradlater sticks him to the floor and tries to calm him down. This does not help and makes Holden frustrating; he starts to call Stradlater a moron and does not stop, until Stradlater punches Holden and gives him a bloody nose. He becomes worried and leaves the room, with Holden still in there. Holden gets up and goes into Ackley’s room, his face still covered in blood.

Chapter 7 - Henrik

Holden speaks to Ackley for a while, and then tries to fall asleep in the bed of Ackley’s roommate, who is away for the weekend. Although, he can’t stop thinking about Stradlater together with Jane, and he has trouble falling asleep. He then wakes up Ackley (brutally) and talks to him some more. Holden suggests running away to some monestary, before leaving, thinking of Ackley as a phony. After that, he decides that he’s **__leaving for New York.__** He agrees with himself to wait for some time there so that his parents can digest the news that he got the ax from Pencey. He packs his bags, his hunting hat and begins to cry. Before he leaves, he yells ‘’Sleep tight, ya morons!’’

 Holden had just leaved Pencey, and walked towards the station. He didn’t have to wait long to get on a train. The train was almost empty, because it was so late, but a woman sat down on the seat next to him, anyway. She was about 40-45 years, and Holden thought she looked good. They started talking when she recognized a sticker from Pencey he was wearing. Holden found out she was the mother of a guy at Pencey, called Ernest Morrow. Mrs. Morrow was nice, and they talked a bit, but Holden didn’t tell her the truth about himself and made up a lot of lies about her son. He didn’t like him at all, but told Mrs. Morrow what a nice and popular guy Ernest was. He started smoking, and convinced her to smoke, too. She said that Ernest told her the vacations would start on Wednesday, and she was worried why Holden had to leave earlier. He said he had a tiny tumor on the brain, so he had to get home and get a surgery. That made her upset, so once he had said it, he regretted it. To stop telling more lies, he started reading a timetable he had in his pocket, while she was reading //Vogue//. When Mrs. Morrow got off the train, she offered him to come and visit Ernest in the summer. She told him about their house right on the beach, with a tennis court, but Holden told her he was going to South America with his grandmother. Nothing could ever make him visit Ernest Morrow. 
 * Chapter 8 - Ida **

After arriving at Penn Station, Holden starts walking into a phone booth since he felt like calling someone. First off, he thinks about his brother D.B, then he think about Phoebe instead. Unfortunately, Holden knew that Phoebe was going to bed at 9 o' clock, so calling her was not an option. Then he thought of calling Jane Gallagher and ask about when her vacation started, but he reconsidered that calling her this late would be a bad idea as well.
 * Chapter 9 - Lan**

Aside from that it was pretty late, he decided to call a girl he used to walk around with, Sally Hayes, since he received a long, phony letter from her, that she sent him as an invitation where he could help Sally trimming the Christmas tree. Sadly, their mothers knew each other, and Holden knew it would be trouble if his mother found out he was in New York. Then he thought about calling a guy from the Whooton School he went on, Carl Luce. Actually, Holden didn't like that guy anyway, so he decided not to call anybody at all.

After standing in the phone booth for about 20 minutes doing nothing, he finally leaves the booth and looks after a cab. Sadly, while he sat in the cab, he totally forgot that he was supposed to check in to a hotel downtown until the vacation started. While being bored as hell, Holden tries to talk to the driver about the ducks in the river at the park. He knew it was a pathetic move, and the driver didn't like it, either.

When they arrived at Edmont Hotel, Holden took on his red hunting cap while he went to the reception, but took it off when he was about to check in. Sadly, he didn't know that the hotel was full of perverts and morons. The bell-boy, which was about sixty-five years old, showed Holden the way to his crumby room. While he took off his jacket and all, he saw some guy dress himself with women's clothes, and the window above him was a pair that squirted water into each other's mouths. Of course, Holden freaked out a bit, and thought that he was the only //normal// guy in the hotel. Ironically, he also said that he's the biggest sex maniac in his mind.

He also felt a bit unsure about his sexual life. He kept making rules about sex, but he just broke them right away after he made a rule. Then he thought about calling Jane again, and act like he's Jane's uncle that had to tell Jane that her aunt just died in a car accident. He knew it would work, but he didn't want to call her since he wasn't in the mood.

After a while, smoking a few cigarettes, he started to feel horny. Then he looked after an address a guy gave to Holden during the last summer party. It was the address to a girl with the name Faith Cavendish, that wasn't exactly a whore, but she wouldn't mind doing it once in a while, at least that's what the guy told Holden. He went off to a phone booth and gave her a call, asking her if she wanted to have a cocktail with him. But since it was too late at night, then she couldn't join him after all. After a failed attempt to convince her, he hung up. (Couldn't smash this into half a page... too many events in one chapter.)


 * Chapter 10 - Memona**

In chapter 10 Holden describes his family in more details, especially his youngest sister, Phoebe. And then he certainly felt like calling her. Actually, she was the smartest kid he had ever met and Holden himself was the only dumb one in his family. She was a quite emotional girl and she often reminded him of his brother Alley who's died. Phoebe writes book about a girl detective, Hazle Weatherfield and that killed him. But anyway, he didn't call her for the fear that his parents may answer the phone and know that he is in New York, kicked out of Pencey Prep.

So, since he was bored and had nothing to do, he went down to the Lavender room, a night club in the hotel to let time pass. There was a band in the club which was putrid and people were mostly old. But suddenly he got an eye on three girls sitting at the table right next to him. They were around thirty or so. He liked the blonde one and gave her the old eye a little bit. But then a waiter came and Holden attempted to order a drink. And of course, the waiter asked him for identification and that was something he probably hadn’t. So, he ordered a coke and asked him to stick a little rum in it. But neither that worked. He relied that he was only a minor and figured it out.

After a while, he started to give those three girls the eye again and asked the blonde one to dance with him. Her name was Bernice and she really was a good dancer. Eventually, all the three women danced with Holden later. And in addition, he bought drinks to them and spended the rest of the evening at their table.

**Chapter 11 - Martin**

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In the beggining of this chapter Holden is still located in his gorgeous small hotel room. He can still not forget about Jane. He thinks of her as he walks through the lobby. He was worried sick about what Stradlater and Jane had been doing. But he tried to deny the thought that something sexual between them happened.

Gradually he begins to reminiscence about his and Jane’s summer houses; they were next door to one another. Jane was very close to Holden. She was the only one he showed his brothers baseball mit to. One day Janes stepfather which suffers from alcohol addiction, came out to the field were he and Jane was playing chekers. Jane’s stepfather kept asking her for cigarettes, she ignored his intrusive behavior, and refused to answer him. The stepfather walked away, shocked, not getting any answers, then Jane began to cry. Holden saw the opportunity of comforting Jane, he hold her tight to himself and started kissing her all over the face. From that incident, Holden and Jane started holding hands constantly.

Holden still misses the time they spend together, he remember the time when they hold hands, and quotes “When you held Jane’s hand, all you knew was, you were happy”. He takes a look outside of his window, and notice that the lights in all the “perverts” rooms are out, so tired, awake, lonely and <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white; line-height: 115%;">depressed, he walks out of the hotel and grabs a taxi. = =

Chapter 12 Andreas <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Holden was on his way to Earnie’s, sitting in some cookie-smelling cab that just about made him puke. He always got stinking cabs. “What happens to those ducks down by the lagoon in central park?” Holden popped the question out of nowhere as the cab drove furiously fast, although hardly passing any people on the street – well, except every now and then some man embracing a girl. Hoodluny-looking guys and their dates. “The //what//?” the cab driver asked. Holden explained the ducks had to go somewhere during the winter time. Do trucks take them? Do they stay? Do they fly away by themselves? “Who cares about a stupid thing like that?” the cab driver seemed kind of tense. People always get sore about things. Ernie’s was jam-packed. He had been there with D.B, you know his brother and all, several times and it was o.k. //Everybody// wants to listen to Ernie and his piano. Though he isn’t that good. I mean, he isn’t //holy// or anything. Holden had to wait like forever before he got a table. He ordered a Scotch and soda right away. Even a two-year old could get a shot of vodka at Ernie’s. All around him jerks made terrible conversations. It was so depressing he could barely stand it all. Whatever. The part that killed Holden though, was when old Ernie was done: He gave the madmen clapping like crazies this amazingly phony, humble bow. Yeah, like //old Earn// was a humble guy. Yeah, right. Suddenly an old girlfriend of Holden’s brother showed up. She had this Navy officer with her, such a tight-assed guy. She asked all about D.B., she’s still in love with him or something. She was so surprised at his Hollywood entrance. She asked Holden to join in at their table. Holden thanked for the offer, though there was no way he could make it. He was meeting this friend of his. Total lie – though better lying than getting bored to death by those two phonies. Holden is such an amazing lier when he has it going. Man, there are so many morons.

Chapter 13 - Johannes The chapter opens with Holden walking back to his hotel.It’s cold and Holden starts to think about who could have stolen his gloves and imagine how to get them back and how to punish the guilty. Back at tired, awake, lonely and <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white; line-height: 115%;"> depressed, he walks out of the hotel the elevator boy wants to fix him a prostitute. Holden accepts the price. He admits a little ashamed that he’s still a virgin. And he doesn’t know how to behave. The girl, Sonny arrives. Holden just wants to talk to her, because he feels sorry for her. Sonny doesn’t want to talk. Holden understands that he really doesn’t want to have sex. After a while he pays her and asks her to leave. He says he is recovering from an operation in the groin area. He uses this as an excuse. She leaves annoyed. Chapter 14 - Askar and grabs a taxi.

Chapter 13 Johannes  The chapter opens with Holden walking back to his hotel.

 It’s cold and Holden starts to think about who could have stolen his gloves and imagine how to get them back and how to punish the guilty.

 Back at the hotel the elevator boy wants to fix him a prostitute. Holden accepts the price. He admits a little ashamed that he’s still a virgin. And he doesn’t know how to behave.

 The girl, Sonny arrives. Holden just wants to talk to her, because he feels sorry for her. Sonny doesn’t want to talk. Holden understands that he really doesn’t want to have sex. After a while he pays her and asks her to leave. He says he is recovering from an operation in the groin area. He uses this as an excuse. She leaves annoyed.

Chapter 14 Askar In this chapter Holden vitalizes his role as a catcher in the rye. Just after the prostitute (Sunny) leaves the room. Holden gets even more depressed and crabby. Whenever Holden feels depressed, he always uses to think about his decreased brother, named Allie. He tells us about the time he and his friend were going to Lake Sedebego on their bikes, Allie wanted to go with them, but Holden wouldn’t let him. And now, sitting on the bed, Holden is feeling sorry for that he didn’t gave his dead brother much attention that time.

Another thing what makes the reader feel even more sorry for Holden is when he tries to pray by getting down on he knees, but he feels that he can’t. He also gives us a view of what kind of atheist he is by thinking of religion and Jesus. Finally someone knocks at the door, this part of the chapter is when the line in the tension curve really increases. Sunny and her pimp (Maruice) is standing outside the door, and demands five dollars, but Holden won't give it to them, Sunny easily manages to get the five dollars from Holden's wallet, Holden doesn't tolerate that and calls her pimp "a cheat and a moron" this leads to a punch in Holden's stomach from the elevator operator (Maurice) and after that they leaves the room, while Holden is lying down on the floor.

Afterwards Holden almost decides to jump out of the window, but he doesn't do it, saying that he dosen't want any "stupid rubberneks" notice his dead body.

= = =<span style="color: #fe2720; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Chapter 15 - Frank** =

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Early the next morning, Holden calls Sally Hayes for a date in the afternoon. When he leaves his bags in a locker at Grand Central Station, he starts to worry about them. He mentions that his father gets angry whenever Holden loses things.

Then he mention that his mother is a person who ”has not felt too healthy since her son Allie died”. He worries about her, and think that if he tell her he was expelled, it would only make things bad for her.

Later on, Haldon eats breakfast at a sandwich bar, and meets two nuns. They are moving to Manhattan to teach in a school. This makes him remembering that the world is driven by only money and the prep school that he had just left behind. One of the nuns force him to pay ten dollars to charity, and after they have left, Haldon relizes that he needs ten dollars for his date with Sally. He concludes that money always stress people and makes them depressed. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">After eating his breakfast, he starts walking toward Broadway. On the way to Broadway, the thoughts of comparing his mother and Sally’s mother to the nuns become his concern. As he arrives to Broadway, he goes to a recode store to buy his sister a recode called “Little Shirley Beans”, which is very old and which his sister, Phoebe, likes it very much. For the record as old and very rare as this one he has to pay fife bucks extra. Satisfied and happy he is to give this news to Phoebe, before that he has to buy two theater tickets (for himself and his date, Sally) for “I know my love”. Even though he doesn’t really want to watch it so much, but for Sally’s sake he buys these thickets. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leaving Broadway, he takes a cab up to the park. And walking in the park towards Mall (where Phoebe likes to skate near bandstand) and planning to meet his sister, and give her the record was his intention of coming here. Here he asks a kid, who accidently recognises Phoebe, the whereabouts of her, and the kid tells him that she has probably gone to a museum with her class, also pointing to The Museum of Natural History, as she herself went last Saturday with her class. But Holden replied, saying that today is Sunday. And it turns out that this little girl doesn’t know anything about the whereabouts of Phoebe. Knowingly that Phoebe won’t be in the museum with her class, he still goes there. The museum brings back memories of him being a student of the same school as his sister is, and visiting the Natural History Museum with his class when he was at Phoebe’s age As he is walking, he watches two kids on a playground, one fat and another thin and under weight, playing on a seesaw. So he tries to balance the weight between these two kids, but he soon realizes that the kids are sending him clear signals to leave them alone. After this he takes a cab in front of the museum to Biltmore to meet Sally.
 * Chapter 16 - Said**

Chapter 17 -

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Holden arrived early at the Biltmore for his date with Sally. When she arrives, ten minutes late, he is actually happy to see her. They are supposed to see The Lunts, and they take a taxi to the .. . When they get out of the cab, he suddenly tells her he loves her, and at the moment he really MEANT it. The show is not as bad as he thought it would be, and he even thinks the main actors are good, but he keeps telling he don’t like them. At the end of the first act, sally meets this jerk she knows from somewhere, and Holden thinks he’s just another phony guy. And when the second act is finished the "phony Andover bastard" even walks like to blocks with them still having this really boring conversation with Sally. Finally he leaves and Holden and Sally take a cab. In the cab Sally got this “marvelous “idea: she wants to go ice-skating at Radio City. Holden agrees and they lend some skates and do some ice-skating till Holden asks her if she wants to drink inside. They have this long conversation where Holden speaks a lot about school and how it’s boring and stuff, until he gets this idea. He wants to “get the hell out of here”, he wants to leave with Sally and just forget about everything, telling her he could lend a car and he would find a job and kind of saying they could “live happily ever after”. Sally, who understands how completely unrealistic his idea is, tries to tell him to forget about it. But Holden get’s exited and talks louder and louder and when Sally protests, he screams to her that she’s a pain in the ass. Sally nearly starts crying, and even though Holden is apologizing as a “madman”, Sally just says she will go home by herself. And at that point Holden is making the whole situation worse: he starts to laugh, and Sally tells him to get away, and she leaves. Holden is thinking of the idea he got and decides that even if Sally would go with him, he would probably not take her. But at the time he asked her, he actually really MEANT it. That's for him the worst part. He swears to god he’s a madman.

= Chapter 18 - Even = In the beginning of this chapter, Holden thinks about calling Jane. He has the evening free and feels he’d like to dance with her or something like that. He then starts telling about the only time he ever saw her dance. The reader is introduced to a new character, Al Pike, who was Jane’s date at this Fourth of July dance. Pike is characterized by Caulfield as a terrible guy. “I asked her how come she could date a show-off bastard like Al Pike. Jane said he wasn’t a show-off. She said he had an inferiority complex.” After some thinking, Holden explains how girls always say that as an excuse to date arrogant boys.

He gives Jane a buzz, but her phone doesn’t answer. After checking his address book, which only has three persons in it, he calls Carl Luce, an intellectual guy 19 year old guy. Carl Luce agrees to meet Holden for a drink.

Holden has some hours to kill before the meeting and decides to go see a movie (even though he hates this) at Radio City Music Hall. When he comes in, the Rockettes Christmas’ Show is on. Although he finds the show hideous, it reminds him about how he and his dead brother Allie used to love a certain guy who plays the drums in the orchestra. Afterwards, the movie starts. He watches the movie and describes the plot in detail. He claims to have found it very boring and summarize: “All I can say is, don’t see it if you don’t want to puke all over yourself.” He then starts walking towards the bar where he is supposed to meet Carl Luce. As he walks, he thinks about the movie he’d just seen. It was a war movie and he starts illustrating how much he hates the Army. At the end, he says he’d volunteer for sitting on top of an atomic bomb.

Chapter 19 - Alexandra <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The chapter 19 starts with a description of the Wicker Bar, which is located in posh Seton Hotel. Here Holden is going to meet Carl Luce, and while waiting he describes it as a sophisticated and with lots of phonies and gay people. He also mentions a not too talented duo that often sings English and French songs at the hotel. Of course Holden is bothered by their phoniness. He sits down at the bar, which is very crowded, and has a drink while waiting.

Then Carl Luce finally arrives, makes it clear that he can’t stay for a very long time, and begins to drink. You get to know that Luce could’ve been Holden’s student advisor at the Whooton School, and that Luce used to tell younger boys about sex. When talking with Luce, Holden desperately wants to impress Luce with his maturity. He persists to talk about sex, while Luce seems uninterested. As with Sally, Holden gets excited while talking and has to be told to lower his voice. Holden is able to irritate Luce with every statement he makes and every question he asks. He departs after saying that Holden should be psychoanalyzed.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Luce has just left and Holden is now sitting alone in the Wicker Bar. While waiting for the two French babes, Tina and Janine, to entertain and sing, he is drinking heavily with a single intension: getting drunk. The babes don’t show up, and are being replaced by “a flitty-looking guy with wavy hair playing the piano and this new babe, Valencia, singing some good songs”. After a while Holden considers himself as //really// drunk and starts horsing around with the “bullet-in-my-guts” business. Suddenly, he gets the idea of giving old Jane Gallagher a buzz and heads over to the phone booth, but changes his mind and calls Sally Hayes instead. The conversation is rather incoherent due to Holden’s silly behaviour, and Sally repeatedly tells him to “go home and go to bed”. Before Holden leaves the bar, he tries to make the waiter give “that Valencia babe” his compliments, but the waiter doesn’t really seem to care and tells Holden to go home, the same way Sally just did. He then decides to go outside and begins to walk toward Central Park. By an unfortunate coincidence Holden drops the CD he had bought to Phoebe. After a while, when his body is “partly frozen”, Holden decides to head home.
 * Chapter 20 - Nora**


 * Chapter 21 - Sveinung**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Holden heads home after he’d been out drinking. The elevator guy, Pete, wasn’t in the car. Some new guy were, so Holden could get in the house without his parents hearing about it by Pete, because he wasn’t there. Holden sneaks into the house, and heads for his little sister Phoebe’s room. When he opens her door, she isn’t there. He forgot that she likes to use their brother’s big room when he’s in Hollywood. Holden sneaks over to his brother’s room. Phoebe is asleep, and Holden doesn’t want to wake her up right away, so he lights a cigarette,and goes through Phoebe’s notes. When he’s done, he wakes his little sister up. She’s very happy to see him, and wonders why he’s home so early. He was supposed to be home Wednesday. He tells her the school let them go early, but as smart as she is, she figures out that he was kicked out. She gets pissed, and yells at him. ”Daddy’s gonna kill you!”, she screams. Holden calms her down, eventually. His parents are out for dinner, but suddenly the door opens, and Holden hides in the closet. His mom comes in and asks Phoebe about the smoke, why it smells so bad in there. She covered for her brother, and tells her mother that she tried one blow. Her mom says good night, and closes the door. Holden sees the chance to get out, borrows some money from his sister, and sneaks out again.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Chapter 22 - Thea** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After Luce Leaves, Holden remains at the bar and gets “drunk as a bastard”. Holden starts to hallucinate about being shot in the stomach and his guts spilling out on the floor. At the Duck Pond Holden starts to worry about catching pneomonia after splashing cold water in his hair. Worried about dying Holden and imagines his funeral. While he is drunk Holden calls Sally. Then, after angering Sally and her grandmother, Holden tries to make a date with the singer at the bar: Valencia. He also tries to make a date with the hat-check lady. Then Holden decides to walk to the Duck pond in Central Park. In Central Park at the Duck Pond Holden starts to worry about catching pneumonia and imagines his funeral, from there he starts to think about Allie and he is daydreaming about the cemetery where Allie is buried. He doesn’t like to think about it, claiming that Allie is surrounded by a "bunch of dead guys." Holden wants to talk to Phoebe, but he has almost no money, so he decides to go home or sneak in, because his parents are most likely asleep. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Chapter 23 - Hanna** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> Holden is at home and he decides to make a phone call to his old English teacher, Mr. Antolini. He is afraid his parents will barge into him in the middle of the conversation so he is makes it quick. He thinks he maybe woke Mr. Antolini and his wife up, but Mr. Antolini invites Holden to come over. Holden begins to tell us about how much he likes Mr. Antolini, and he gives us an example of his courage and bravery with telling us that Mr. Antolini was the only one to action when James Castle died. Holden goes into Phoebe’s room, where she sits in the bed with her legs folded and listens to dance music. Holden dances with her for four numbers and he thinks she is a better dancer than other kids.

Holden and Phoebes parents come home and Holden hides in the closet after jamming out his cigarette on his shoe. Their mom comes into the room and asks Phoebe if she has been smoking a cigarette. Phoebe lies and tells her that she lit one for a second. Her mother keeps asking questions about her evening and then goes to bed with a headache. Holden decides to leave the house and Phoebe loans him the money she’d been saving for Christmas. Holden starts to cry and Phoebe has to comfort him. Then he sneaks out of the house to visit Mr. Antolini.

Chapter 24 - Yu-Qi

Holden is at Mr. Antolini’s apartment now and Mr. Antolini welcomes him with joy. Mr. Antolini was Holden’s old English teacher, so he wanted to know if he had flunked in English. Holden began talking about the Oral Expression he flunked and a boy named Richard Kinsella who got a F. He liked the story Richard Kinsella’s told about his father’s farm and his uncle at the Oral Expression. Suddenly he felt tired and had a terrific headache. He did not want to talk any more, but Mr. Antolini was not tired at all. Mr. Antolini began a conversation and Holden tried not to yawn, but he could not hold himself and yawned. He got to sleep at the couch. Then he suddenly woke up with Mr. Antolini petting his head. He got afraid and mad up an excuse and got out of the apartment.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Holden is heading towards the Grand Central Station, where he spends his entire night sleeping on a bench in a waiting room. The next day he wakes up to the sound of people entering the waiting room. He was thinking of going back to Mr. Antolini, but that made him depressed. He got even more depressed after reading a magazine about cancer, which someone had left on the bench next to him. Thinking he was going to die of cancer, he started walking way over east toward the cheap restaurants to eat breakfast. After a cup of coffee, in this cheap restaurant, he started to walk up and down Fifth Avenue. Every time he came to the end of the block and was going to cross the curb, he felt like he would never get to the other side. Like if he was going to disappear. He started to call for his dead brother, Allie, and plead him to help him make to the other side. He decides to leave New York, and never go home or to the school again. He goes to Phoebe’s school to return the money she had loaned him and to say good bye before he left New York. He writes a letter where he tells her to meet him in front of the museum, in which she accepts the offer but instead she shows up with a suitcase in her hand ready to leave with him. She is begging Holden to take her with him, but he refuses. She gets angry, and refuses to talk to him while she returns the red hunting hat she got from him. She strongly denies going back to school, so Holden is taking her to the zoo. They walk to the zoo, Holden on one side of the street and Phoebe on the other side. After watching some animals, they are walking to the park. This time they both walk on the same side of the street, but with a gap between. When they come to a carousel Holden convinces phoebe to take a ride, which he watch happily as phoebe goes round and round. The sight of her makes him feel like he wants to cry.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Chapter 25 - Karunya **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">

Chapter 26 - Javier