I 'm Finally Out Of That Goddam Place

Holden had now deliberately involved himself with the adult world and must extricate himself. He was searching for love and she was selling sex. Holden refused to proceed once he began to consider the prostitute as an individual. He could no longer consider her as a sex object and he gathered a feeling of sympathy for her, instead. Her attempts to flirt with him, he found vulgar.

Him: Hey! I’m doing great! Just got a new job in New York City working at Chanel as a security guard. How is the family doing and how have you been?

One could say that Holden had a drinking problem. In the text it stated “I kept sitting there getting drunk and waiting for old Tina and Janine to come out and do their stuff, but they weren't there.” It seems as if he doesn't know how to control the way he acts that much because when he was at the bar he was asking weird questions like “How's your sex life?” So drinking for him is definitely not a good idea.

His loneliness makes him feel depressed and willing to die. At his hotel, Holden decides to hire a prostitute: “She didn’t care what the hell my name was, naturally” (105). Normally one would go to a prostitute for sex, but Holden is solely focused on finding company. He is looking for any kind of connection or relationship between him and this stranger, but she is only willing to talk business. He is feeling so deserted that his best prospect for company is a prostitute who does not even care about him. He knows prostitutes are considered among the worst of people, and they are also illegal. However, Holden loses perspective in terms of the way he sees himself in comparison to others. Now thinking that he is now on the same level as prostitutes in society. Holden grasps onto relationships with people like prostitutes (and later taxi drivers) because no one is there for him like Allie was. It is almost as if Holden is trying to recreate his relationship with Allie. Although he can not find anyone nearly as special or satisfying, so therefore he reverts towards ending his life. He describes the lobby of the hotel that he is staying at as empty and full of dead cigars, leaving him feeling lonely and frustrated as he says: “I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead” (101). When his emotions start to

Holden has become. He snuck into his house to visit her and she told him “You

A few times Holden tells people lies about how he's sick or has something wrong with him to get out of a situation or just to make them feel sorry for him. This time Holden was on the train talking to this woman “"It's me. I have

Holden’s date with Sally Hayes exhibited his difficulty at cooperating with others. At first he gives us a dire impression of Sally, “I wasn’t too crazy about her, but I’d known her for years.” (p. 105) Later, he wants to marry Sally and says he is in love with her. The biggest mystery of all when it comes to women is with Jane Gallagher. Constantly mentioning Jane, Holden recalls playing checkers with her before he got sent to boarding school. When his roommate, Stradlater, has a date with Jane, Holden asks him a peculiar question, “Did you ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row?” (p. 42) Holden, jealous of Stradlater’s date with Jane, longs to see Jane but never has the courage to call her. Interactions with other people especially women perplex and overwhelm Holden. He therefore resorts to isolation, illustrating a characteristic of his mental state.

When he comes back from the bar late at night, he encounters the elevator man and tells him to send a prostitute to his suite, yet he fails in his sexual relationship with her because of his sexual innocence caused by his isolation. When the prostitute arrives, Holden tries to avoid any sexual talk, he then tells her that he does not want to do it, he says, “I’ll pay you and all, but do you mind very much if we don’t do it? […] the trouble was, I just felt more depressed than sexy” (Salinger 96). Holden

At this point, Holden is losing his mind, he is talking about going away and he is worried about dying. After crossing the street, he said “Every time I got to the end of the block, I’d make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. Allie is no longer alive, and the fact that Holden pretended he was talking to him just proves that he is slowly losing his mind.

3. Who is the first person Holden calls? Why do you suppose he doesn’t arrange to meet her the next day as she suggests? A prostitute and not to sure doesn’t want to wait that long perhaps

Holden introduced himself as Jim Steele, which is a phony lie. While she is there, he wants to interact and conversate with her instead of having sex. Holden gets a little nervous because Sunny pressured him into having sex with her to get it over with. Since Holden is very depressed at this point in the novel, he tells her another phony lie saying that he just had an operation on his clavichord and he is not in the mood anymore. Holden then asked her, “Would you care for a cigarette now?”

So Holden did what he did best - lying. He told Sunny that he just had an operation. Sunny, still wanting to get her money, climbed onto his lap and started whispering into Holden's ear. This only made him more nervous. In the end, he paid her the five dollars he owed her, but she insisted it was ten dollars. She got angry and asked him to get her dress. Finally, she left. Holden sat down, smoked, and thought about his current predicament with his parents. Eventually he went to bed. Someone started pounding on the door. It was Sunny and Maurice. They wanted another five dollars. They basically broke in, and Maurice shoved Holden over. Holden still refused to give them the money. Sunny grabbed Holden's wallet and took the money. Maurice ended up punching Holden who fell to the floor. Only then did they leave. So Holden had about two minutes of decent conversation, a few cigarettes, and a sore face just for hiring this prostitute. I think Holden learned how the real world is. In the real world people are not always honest, they want money, and some are willing to be violent to get it.

The timing couldn’t have been better for the call “Hi this is Adam, who is this?” he questioned as the number had no name attached to it and he didn’t recognized it.

In his room, Holden is visited by his next door neighbor, Robert Ackley, who is annoying and dirty, and his roommate Stradlater, who Holden isn’t too fond of. Holden hears that Stradlater is going on a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden used to date and

     This is shown when Holden meets Sunny, a prostitute at a hotel. He pays her, but sends her back without having sex with her. He feels depressed and sorry for her. The next morning Holden has a date with an old girlfriend, Sally Hayes.