When he arrives at Penn Station, he enters a telephone booth and considers calling several people, but for several reasons, he decides not to do so. Although he believes that this student is a complete "bastard," he tells the woman invented stories about how shy his son is and how respected he is in school. On the train to New York, Holden meets the mother of one of his fellow Pencey students. Holden decides that he has had enough of Pencey and will go to Manhattan three days before, will stay in a hotel and will not tell his parents that he has returned. Stradlater grabs Holden and bloodies his nose. Stradlater makes fun of Holden, who is enraged and attacks Stradlater. During the course of the night, Holden becomes increasingly nervous about the fact that Stradlater takes Jane out, and when Stradlater returns, Holden asks him insistently if he tried to have sex with her. Stradlater spends the night on a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden used to date and still admires. He visits his old history teacher, Spencer, to say goodbye, but when Spencer tries to reprimand him for his poor academic performance, Holden gets upset.īack in the bedroom, Holden is more irritated by his unhygienic neighbor, Ackley, and his own roommate, Stradlater. At Pencey, he failed four of five of his classes and received a warning that he was expelled, but is not scheduled to return to Manhattan until Wednesday. Pencey is Holden's fourth school He has already failed in three others. Holden's story begins the following Saturday at the end of classes at Pencey High School in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas when Holden is sixteen. Holden is not specific about his location while telling the story, but makes it clear that he is being treated in a psychiatric or sanatorium hospital. Salinger takes place around the 1950s and is narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield. Genres: Novel, Bildungsroman, Coming-of-Age Fiction, First-person narrative, Young adult fiction
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