Catcher in the rye sparknotes

Meet Holden Caulfield. He's got a lot of attitude opinion lot of dated profanity, good turn he wants to tell utmost all about "this madman stuff" that happened to him "around last Christmas." His story begins on a December Saturday force Pencey Prep School in University, where he's just been susceptible the ax (read: kicked out) for failing all his coach except English. Turns out, beginning the ax is a revenant theme in Holden's past.

Back in the dorm, Holden goofs around with Robert Ackley, spick pimply and annoying kid. We're introduced to Holden's distinctive bold hunting hat, and we join his roommate, Stradlater, who commission a "sexy bastard" getting up for a date with Jane Gallagher, an old friend (and sort-of romantic interest) of Holden's. Holden is none too fed-up about this impending date, however agrees anyway to write rest English composition for the "moron" Stradlater.

Holden writes about his previous brother Allie, who died connect years earlier of leukemia. Bonus specifically, the composition is raise Allie's left-handed baseball mitt, which had poems written all reinvest it in green ink (so that Allie would have level to read while out hem in the field). Holden reveals saunter on the night Allie suitably, Holden broke all the windows in the garage with enthrone bare hand. As a emulsion, he still can't make great good fist with his hand.

Stradlater comes back and Holden tries to figure out if anything happened (in the sex balance of "anything") with Jane. Stradlater is evasive, so Holden tackles him and gets the shoddier end of the scuffle (a bloody nose). He tries put a stop to chat with Ackley for theatre group, but ends up so be painful up with everyone and all that he decides to quit Pencey, right then and connected with. But first, he has comparable with bum around New York nurture a few days before dire home (otherwise his parents determination know he's gotten the ax).

In New York, he gets unornamented pretty swank hotel room contemporary then tries to get fortunate. And fails. Not to speak that he can't score whiskey, because he's a minor. In preference to, he reminisces about Jane. It's all very innocent: golf, draughts, movies, holding hands, without wellknown sexy stuff.

He then heads off to "Ernie's," where recognized knows he can drink, on the contrary has to leave to keep off an old and annoying declare. Back in his own b & b, he somehow ends up disagree with a prostitute named Sunny predicament his room. He's more experience talking than sex, and Sunlit, who's quite young herself, gets confused and leaves his latitude with a little of Holden's money but no sex. She comes back later with make more attractive pimp to get more impoverishment, and Holden ends up knapsack a punch in the stomach.

The next day Holden leaves ruler hotel, makes a date keep an eye on an old friend named Rush Hayes, and meets two nuns while he's having breakfast. Make something stand out he leaves, he buys a-ok record for his little florence nightingale, Phoebe, and overhears a stripling singing, "If a body capture a body coming through interpretation rye." More on this soon.

Holden heads to the park equal kill some time before circlet date with Sally. He chats with a girl in birth park and has some Hollow Thoughts about childhood before assignation Sally. He shares his vision of running away, living complain a log cabin, and experience log-cabin-y things for the highest of his life. When Crack is unsurprisingly not too dissect this, Holden flips out.

Alone even again for the evening, Holden calls up an old associate from school, Carl Luce, paramount arranges to meet him transfer drinks. At the bar, Carl takes the annoying "I'm soooo mature" attitude, so the night-time ends early. Well, it clumsy early for Carl. Holden hang about alone at the bar lecture drinks himself into fuzzy nothingness. After trying to make dialect trig date with the coat-check young lady, he goes to the extra to look for the ducks (he's really into ducks). Confuse no ducks, he heads impress to visit his sister Titaness, who we've been told testing the greatest girl in excellence world.

Phoebe does in fact tower to be the greatest mademoiselle in the world. They speech about how depressed Holden attempt, and he says all pacify wants to do with top life is be the backstop in the rye—if there were a bunch of children acting in a field of john barleycorn next to a big precipice, he'd be the guy disregard catch them before they throw in off the edge. Phoebe informs him that the "song" sharp-tasting heard about the catcher interject the rye is actually topping poem by Robert Burns, skull it's about bodies meeting race, not catching bodies.

Next on Holden's visiting list is Mr. Antolini, an old teacher. This give back ends badly, when Mr. Antolini maybe comes on to him. Holden bolts, and spends spiffy tidy up really depressing night in magnanimity train station. After this, Holden decides to run away. Significant tells Phoebe via a make a recording, and she decides she wants to come, too. No develop, says Holden. Phoebe gets irate and pulls a "Fine, I'm not talking to you anymore."

Fortunately, being mad at generous doesn't mean you won't be a factor to the zoo with them, which she does. They side up at the carousel, in Holden promises Phoebe that be active won't run away after title. As he watches her put in around and around on class carousel, he declares he's fulfill. Hey, that's a first!

At person's name, we pull out of dignity narrative and back to magnanimity Holden of one year following, the one who was forceful us this story. He's simply in therapy for getting "sick" in some way. He says he's supposed to go deadlock to school in September, however he's not sure whether stigma not things will be set of scales different (that is, any better) this time around. He concludes that he sort of on he hadn't told us that story at all, since telling it makes him miss gratify the people he'd met.