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Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Cathcer in the Rye #3

The last part of the novel The Catcher in the Rye starts when Holden goes on a date with a girl named Sally. By this time, he has already left his boarding school and is currently staying in a hotel. He is taking Sally to a movie. He hates movies, but he is taking her to one anyway. After the movie, he takes her ice skating at the Rockafeller Plaza. They are neither good ice skaters and they both have weak ankles. After about an hour, they stop to go eat dinner. At the dinner, they are talking and he tells her she is a pain in the ass. She gets upset and she leaves. Now Holden is lonely and he does not know what to do. He calls up and old friend and they meet at a bar. Holden is trying to make conversation, but they man does not want to talk to Holden that much. Holden keeps drinking and he is becoming drunk. The man leaves and Holden stays for awhile longer until he is drunk. He leaves and goes into Central Park. He is worried that he will get sick from the cold and he will die. This worries him because he would feel horrible if he died without saying good by to his little sister, Phoebe. He decides to go and see her once he sobers up. He sneaks into the house because he does not want to wake up his parents. He goes into her room and reads her journal and then he wakes her up. She is a livly little girl and she is very excited to see her older brother. She tells him that their dad is going to kill him once he knew Holden was kicked out of school. Holden hung out with his sister a little longer and then he left to go stay the night a an old teachers house. The teacher tries to give Holden advice on how to live his life. Holden falls asleep on his couch and he wakes up to the teacher patting his head. Holden gets up and leaves immediatlly. He all of a sudden misses his yournger, dead brother and he is asking for help from him to stay alive. The story does not have a dramatic ending. All it was was he just did not want to explain what happened to him.

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