Holden Caulfield's 'Catcher In The Rye'

CH. 1: The first chapter is a little vague on where the narrator, “Holden Caulfield is. But from the very beginning of the book you can surely tell he’s not all there. Apparently he’s had some kind of mental breakdown of which you don’t find out later in the book. He mentions his brother who is a writer and even calls him a “Prostitute” writer. You can get a great sense of how the story is going to be like from the way Holden expresses himself to the audience or whoever he’s talking to about his current situation. Holden goes on to elaborate on the way he wants to tell his story and begins with an anecdote of when he was in high school and he got kicked out for slacking on his work. He talks about watching the big football game at

Spencer’s wife. They were both a nice old couple who lived in a small house down the street. They’re house smelled like old people and Holden spoke about how old people skin bothered him. The boy got into Mr. Spencer’s room and began to discuss Caulfield’s failures. The protagonist quickly grows tired of his teacher and want to leave. Then the teachers pulls out one of Holden’s latest assignments, which was a poorly written, half done essay. Holden was surprised the meeting went the way it did because he left his teacher’s house feeling worse than

Holden rants about not being sleepy so he washes up and decided to head to the Lavender room, the club inside the hotel. He heads downstairs and when they sit him he gets a crappy table and the waiter refuses to serve him drinks without an ID. He notices that three women are sitting next to him, he eventually gathers up the courage to ask them to dance, he ends up dancing with all of them and paying for their drinks. Eventually the girls decide to leave and when his attempts at getting them to stay fail, he decided to leave as