Summary of Catcher in the Rye
Summary of Catcher in the Rye
The story start's at the last night from Holden at Pencey, a Boarding School he is at. He has been kicked out of school because he didn't have good marks. It's almost Christmas and he supposed to go home in the vacation on Wednesday. He decides to go a few days earlier to New York, where his parents live, but he doesn't go home, because he doesn't want his parents to know he has been kicked out of school again. He checks in a hotel and goes to the Ernie's, a night-club. He has been there before with his brother D.B. He dances the whole evening with a blond girl, but she's only interested in celebrities so he goes back to the hotel. At the hotel, the elevator-boy says that he's a pimp and that he can arrange him a five-dollar whore. He takes the deal and a few minutes later the whore, named Sunny, arrives at his room. He was excited because he thought that he could loose his virginity that night, but when she takes her sweater off, he realizes that he doesn't feel sexy or something so he sends her away after he paid her. She wants ten dollar instead of the five dollar he had arranged with the elevator-boy.
He doesn't give her the ten-dollar and a few minutes later, she comes back with Maurice. He still doesn't pay and Maurice smacks him to punches in his face. Holden starts to cry. He pays now and they go away. The next morning he gives Sally, his formal girlfriend, a call and they go see a theatre-show at two 'o clock. They spend the whole afternoon together and after that they go ice-skating. Later, in a bar, he tells her he wants to go to the woods with her ant get a job so that they can merry each other. He was really serious. Sally didn't want to go and he called her a 'serious pain in the ass'. She ran away and he felt lonely. He phoned an old friend of him to get a drink together that night. They meet in some bar downtown. It isn't going well between them and after a while, and some drinks, Holden's friend, Carl Luce, leaves. Holden stays and he drinks a lot that night and he gets really drunk. When he's drunk,...