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Holden leaves Pencey because he is flunking and disgusted with his teachers and peers.
Chapter 1Holden rents a cheap hotel room, where he is assaulted by a prostitute and her pimp.
Chapter 9Holden asks Carl Luce for advice, but the meeting ends in a fight.
Chapter 18Holden visits Mr. Antolini, leaving after Mr. Antolini appears to make a pass at him.
Chapter 24| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | The Catcher in the Rye opens with a first-person narrator, who the reader later learns is Holden Caulfield, refusing to ... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Spencer calls Holden in by his last name, Caulfield. Holden tries to be polite; however, Spencer's scolding tone annoys ... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Holden admits that he is "the most terrific liar you ever saw." He lies to get away from Spencer, saying he has to go to... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Holden follows Stradlater to the sink, where the latter shaves. While Ackley is openly disgusting, Stradlater is a "secr... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | After dinner Holden and another Pencey student, Mal Brossard, decide to take a bus into town to see a movie. Holden also... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Holden worries when Stradlater gets back from his date because he knows his roommate to be unscrupulous. Stradlater pick... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Holden stumbles into Ackley's darkened room, nose bleeding, and asks to sleep in Ackley's roommate's bed. Holden, sudden... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Holden walks to the train station, uses snow to wash the blood from his face, and takes the train into the city. At one ... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | In the city, Holden wants to talk to someone, but he can't think of anyone who wouldn't tell his parents that he'd left ... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Holden changes clothes and heads to the hotel's club, the Lavender Room. He wants to call his sister, Phoebe, but knows ... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | As he exits the Lavender Room, Holden recalled the summer that he and Jane played golf and tennis together. Jane isn't b... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | Holden takes a cab through deserted streets, wishing that he could talk with Phoebe. Holden asks the driver, Horwitz, ab... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | Holden walks to the hotel, wearing his red hat. He notices that the hotel lobby smells like cigar smoke. The elevator at... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | Feeling depressed, Holden lies in bed and smokes as dawn draws near. At such times he talks to Allie, telling Allie to g... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | Holden wakes up at about 10 and thinks again of calling Jane but instead calls Sally Hayes. He had known Sally for a whi... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | Holden walks to a record store to find a record he knows Phoebe would like. A family exits a church and walks ahead of H... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | Sally shows up, and they exchange phony greetings. In the cab to the theater, Holden persuades Sally to kiss him althoug... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | Holden thinks about calling Jane to see if she wants to go dancing. No one answers at Jane's house, so, feeling bored an... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | Holden usually avoided the Wicker Bar, where "two French babes" played piano and sang "dirty" songs to "drive all the ph... Read More |
| Chapter 20 | Holden remains at the Wicker Bar past midnight, getting drunk. He decides to call Jane but changes his mind and calls Sa... Read More |
| Chapter 21 | Holden tricks the elevator boy into letting him off on his family's floor. He enters the apartment quietly and goes to D... Read More |
| Chapter 22 | Holden tries to explain why he flunked out: the students are "phonies" and "mean guys"; even the nice teachers were also... Read More |
| Chapter 23 | Despite the late hour, Mr. Antolini tells Holden to come over. Holden returns to Phoebe's room, and Phoebe tells him tha... Read More |
| Chapter 24 | Holden catches a cab to the Antolinis' apartment, where his teacher greets him, drink in hand. Holden accepts a cigarett... Read More |
| Chapter 25 | It is now nearly dawn on Monday. Holden slept on a bench at Grand Central and awakens depressed and sick. Holden c... Read More |
| Chapter 26 | This chapter frames the long monologue about the crazy days before Christmas. Holden doesn't want to talk about how he w... Read More |
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