He meets up with an old acquaintance named Carl Luce and has a date with an off-and-on girlfriend, Sally Hayes, but both experiences leave him more miserable than before. Holden spends a total of two days in the city, and these days are largely characterized by drunkenness and loneliness. For this, Holden gets his second pummeling in as many nights, at the hands of Maurice, the hotel's elevator man/pimp. Holden sends the prostitute away without services rendered, and although he pays her for her time, it's apparently not enough. Here, he checks into the derelict Edmont Hotel, a place that provides him with several adventures including an evening dancing with three dull tourist girls and a clumsy encounter with a prostitute. He finishes packing and leaves campus in the middle of the night.Ī train takes Holden to New York City, where his family has lived all his life. After the fight, Holden decides to get up and leave Pencey immediately. The idea of Stradlater taking one of Holden's old friends, Jane Gallagher, out on a date, and the thought of suave Stradlater making the moves on his innocent friend drives Holden to his fists.
This isn't a particularly satisfying visit, nor is his last evening at Pencey, during which he hangs around with a coarse and dull guy named Ackley and later gets beat up by his own roommate, a ladies' man named Stradlater. In lieu of watching, Holden takes a walk to the house of his history teacher, old Mr. It's the day of the big Pencey football game, something that Holden has little interest in. Holden's tale begins at Pencey, which he despises for its prevailing "phoniness." Holden finds a lot of people and attitudes unbearably phony. Holden tells the story as a monologue, from some sort of a mental facility where he's recovering from the stress of the experiences he retells. During these days, Holden leaves Pencey Prep, a boys' school he's been kicked out of, and takes off for a few nights alone in New York City.
The Catcher in the Rye is the story of teenager Holden Caulfield's turbulent last few days before his Christmas vacation.
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