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How Does Holden Write A Brief Summary Of The Catcher In The Rye

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Catcher in the Rye starts off with a year old named Holden Caulfield. Holden had always been a troubled kid, he had gotten kicked out of several private schools, now he is getting expelled from Pencey Prep School for failing four of his five classes. After he gets kicked out his roommate, Stradlater, asks him to write him an english paper because he is getting ready for a date with Jane Gallagher, who is an old friend of Holden's. Holden is not very happy about the date, but he agrees to write the English paper for him. Holden writes about his younger brother Allie, who died three years ago because he had leukemia. Holden includes that on the night Allie died, he broke all the windows in the garage with his bare hand. So he can't make a very good fist with his hand. …show more content…

Stradlater is rude, so Holden tackles him and ends up getting knocked out. Holden then decides he will go to New York City a couple days earlier. He doesn't want his parents to know he got kicked out so he stays in the Edmond Hotel. He sees girls walking by so he calls a stripper, but she ignores him, so he goes to the Lavender Room and dances with a few girls. They someone gets him a prostitute, when she walks in he gets nervous and just gives her five dollars and ask her to leave. He was supposed to give her ten dollars but he didn't so she punches him. He calls Sally Hayes and ask her to go out to eat lunch with him. Even though he hardly knows her, he is starting to think he wants to marry her. Then, he suggest that they run away together to New England. On the date, he tells Sally about his dreams of running away, living in a log cabin, and doing cool things for the rest of his life. When Sally says she doesn't want to do that, Holden flips out. She didn't want to do what he wanted so he just gave up on trying with

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