In the beginning and throughout a good portion of the book, I believed that Holden was this type of kid who had lots of potential and opportunity, but wasted it all away in a sense. After reading “The Catcher in the Rye”, I have many different thoughts about the book and the main character, Holden. So, the story ends with Holden getting the help he has needed throughout the story, and him getting his life in line. He then says how he may enroll into school next semester, and actually apply himself as advised form many people in the story. This is where he told the story from the whole time. It is known, however, that he did not run away, and he went home, and ultimately got mentally sick, and is now at this point in a mental rehab facility. The story then ends by Holden explaining how he wont say what happened after he begins to cry in the park. After they hangout awhile, he is happy as he’s ever been, and cries. This is all while Holden is at his lowest point yet, and constantly down on himself. After he leaves, he meets back up with his sister. Once Holden arrives at his place, he says, “I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall.” to try to tell him how he is messing up his life. After a short argument, Holden responds to Phoebe’s question that asked, “What do you want to do with your life?”, with “If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye.” Holden goes on to explain how he wants to stand at the edge of a cliff, and protect kids that are playing nearby from falling off into a field of rye far below, which introduces “the catcher in the rye”.Īfter his sister turns down these thoughts, his parents return, who he hides from, and he then leaves for good and turns to an old English teacher by the name of Mr. Here, he is forced to tell his sister about how he has been kicked out of school yet again, and then proceeds to explain and justify why he hates school so much and how it is such a struggle to him. All three of these events end up getting to him in a negative way, which pushes him to leave Pencey three days early and stay in a hotel until it is time to return home.ĭuring these three days, Holden goes through a lot, such as dealing with prostitutes, ex-girlfriends, old friends, thoughts of running away for good, and alcohol, he ends up being led to his sister, who still lives at his family’s apartment, by the name of Phoebe. His former teacher tries giving him tips, his roommate gets in a relationship with his crush, who he then gets in a fight with, and his neighbor is constantly bugging him with his disgusting habits. To end his last couple days at Pencey, Holden goes through a lot of annoying moments that test his patience at a disappointing time for Holden. At the books beginning, the school is several days away from Christmas break, where Holden will be returning home to Manhattan, where his parents live, because he has been expelled out of the prep school due to the failing of four out of his five classes. Salinger, is about a boy named Holden Caulfield, who begins the book at a school named Pencey Prep School, in Pennsylvania. To start off, the Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D.