Holden says he has to meet someone, leaves, and walks back to the Edmont. She sits on his lap and talks dirty to him, but he insists on paying her five dollars and showing her the door. Sunny returns with Maurice, who demands another five dollars from Holden. When Holden refuses to pay, Maurice punches him in the stomach and leaves him on the floor, while Sunny takes five dollars from his wallet. Holden goes to bed. They arrange to meet for a matinee showing of a Broadway play.
He eats breakfast at a sandwich bar, where he converses with two nuns about Romeo and Juliet. He gives the nuns ten dollars. He tries to telephone Jane Gallagher, but her mother answers the phone, and he hangs up. Holden and Sally go to the play, and Holden is annoyed that Sally talks with a boy she knows from Andover afterward. They both skate poorly and decide to get a table instead.
Holden tries to explain to Sally why he is unhappy at school, and actually urges her to run away with him to Massachusetts or Vermont and live in a cabin. She refuses to listen to his apologies and leaves. Holden calls Jane again, but there is no answer. Luce arranges to meet him for a drink after dinner, and Holden goes to a movie at Radio City to kill time.
At Whooton, Luce had spoken frankly with some of the boys about sex, and Holden tries to draw him into a conversation about it once more. Holden continues to drink Scotch and listen to the pianist and singer. Then he goes to the lagoon in Central Park, where he used to watch the ducks as a child. It takes him a long time to find it, and by the time he does, he is freezing cold. What is a catcher in the rye and why does Holden want to be one? Does Mr. Antolini really make a pass at Holden?
Why does Holden run away from Pencey? Does Holden have sex with Sunny, the prostitute? What happens to Holden after his date with Sally Hayes and his meeting with Carl Luce both end badly? What is the setting for The Catcher in the Rye? Does Holden have a mental illness? Why does Holden wear the red hunting hat? How does Holden feel about Jane?
Grown men sometimes find the emblazoned obscenities of life too much for them, and leave this world indecorously, so the fact that a sixteen-year-old boy is overwhelmed should not be surprising.
It is characteristic of Holden that although he is crazy about Jane, always thinking of her, always wanting to call her up, he never does call her up. He can never risk it with Jane. While Stradlater is shaving before going to meet Jane, he asks Holden to write a classroom composition for him.
Or a house. Stradlater was always doing that. He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place. God, how I hate that stuff! Nevertheless, he sits down to write a composition for the absent Don Juan:. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere.
In green ink. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. They really meant it. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody.
I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. Holden wants to visit Phoebe at the family apartment, in the middle of the night, without his parents' knowledge. Fortunately, there is a new elevator operator on duty who does not recognize him.
Holden pretends to be visiting the Dicksteins who have an apartment on the same floor as his parents. Using his key to enter, Holden sneaks to Phoebe's room only to realize that she now is sleeping in D. Holden peruses items on her desk, by lamplight, until he wakens Phoebe. She reveals that their parents are out for the evening and will return very late.
The maid is in the apartment to care for the girl. As they talk, Phoebe guesses that Holden has been expelled and concludes that their father will kill him. Upset, she hides her head under a pillow. Holden goes to the living room for cigarettes. Phoebe's significance in the novel is crucial.
Despite her youth, she sometimes seems to be Holden's best friend.
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