He finally decides to stay at the Edmond Hotel.įrom his window he can see other guests at the hotel, including a transvestite and a couple who spit drinks back at each other, which makes him think about sex. He considers inviting his younger sister, Phoebe, as well as Jane Gallagher and another friend, Sally Hayes. When Holden reaches New York, he does not know whom he should call. Holden invites her to have a drink with him at the club car.
Morrow about how popular and well-respected her son is at Pencey- actually Ernest is loathed by the other boys. Claiming that his name is actually Rudolf Schmidt (the name of the Pencey janitor), Holden lies to Mrs. On the train to New York, Holden sits next to the mother of a Pencey student, Ernest Morrow. He leaves Pencey to return to New York City, where he will stay in a hotel before actually going home. Soon after, Holden decides to leave Pencey that night and not to wait until Wednesday. Holden asks about his date with Jane, and when Stradlater indicates that he might have had sex with her, Holden becomes enraged and tries to punch Stradlater, who quickly overpowers him and knocks him out. When Stradlater returns, he becomes upset at Holden for writing what he thinks is a poor essay, so Holden responds by tearing up the composition.
#THE CATCHER IN THE RYE CLIFF NOTES WINDOWS#
Holden relates that his brother Allie died of leukemia several years ago and states that he broke all of the windows in his garage out of anger on the night that Allie died. When he returns, Holden writes the composition for Stradlater. Stradlater prepares for a date with Jane Gallagher, a friend of Holden from several summers before, while Holden goes with Ackley and Mal Brossard into New York City to see a movie. Stradlater is conceited and arrogant, a “secret slob” who asks Holden to write an English composition for him. Holden returns to his dormitory, where he finds Robert Ackley, an obnoxious student with a terrible complexion who will not leave Holden alone, and Ward Stradlater, Holden’s roommate. Spencer advises him that he must realize that “life is a game” and one should “play it according to the rules,” but the sixteen-year-old, who has already left four private schools, dismisses much of what Spencer says. Spencer, his history teacher, before he leaves Pencey. Having been expelled for failing four out of his five classes, Holden goes to see Mr. At the beginning of his story, Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School, irresponsible and immature. This story forms the basis for his narrative. Currently in psychiatric care, this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas. Crucially, Holden sees himself as all alone in this endeavor-the only person willing to attempt this feat, or qualified to do so.Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, begins with an authoritative statement that he does not intend the novel to serve as his life story. He wishes to stop that passage of time and freeze everyone at a more innocent point in their lives. Everything Holden has observed in his life has told him that his brother Allie and his sister Phoebe are perfect in their childhood innocence, but will become like all of Holden’s despised schoolmates, teachers, and other adults in due time. Holden sees maturity as inherently bad-growing up leads to corruption and phoniness, and finally death. This quote not only gives the novel its title, it explains Holden’s fundamental issue in a beautiful, poetic way. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
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