The Catcher In The Rye
...er interested nor concerned about the fight that the two roommates had together. As you might expect, Holden decided to leave Pencey early and stay in New York until the day that he planned to arrive at home had approached. On the train ride to New York, Holden met a mother of student that attended Pencey. While he had been maintaining a ‘nice’ talk with the woman, Holden soon had found him self lying about his self and the woman’s son just so he could seem to be sociable and kind, meantime he was snickering at himself that he was being the phony that he had always rejected and found to be disgusting. After he had reached his destination at the New York Penn Station, Holden had contemplated on calling someone, but then had decided that it was too late. Holden then took a taxi to an older hotel in which he received a rather ‘crummy’ room. Once in his room, he called a girl by the name of Faith Cavendish. He was given her phone number, and when in conversation with her, he again seemed to be phony, acting smooth and mature, as he had done with the woman on the train. While sitting wide awake late on a Saturday night, in his room, Holden had a long digression about whether or not to call Phoebe, his little sister for whom he had high respect for and also wanted to go see. Because he is very much awake at the moment, and not at all drowsy, Holden went down the Lavender Room, a club at the hotel. When entering the club, Holden was put at a faulty table and is not even able to order a drink. He ended up sitting with three women who were secretaries from Seattle Washington . Holden bought drinks and danced with the girls, although after the whole evening they ended up leaving him with the check, without so much as a thank you. Holden then went to the lobby of the hotel and for a while thought about Jane Gallagher and a summer that the two of them had spent together. After being confused and disturbed about Jane, him and Stradlater, Holden decided to go to another night club in Greenwich Village. It was a club that his older brother, D.B., had taken him. D.B. was in California being a prostitute. When he came to the club he met a girl named Lillian Simmons, who had in fact dated D.B. Holden also considered that girl to be a phony and an idiot, like most of the world. He left the club and walked back to the hotel in the beautiful night atmosphere. On the way up the elevator, back to his room in the hotel, Holden was set up with a prostitute by Maurice the elevator man. When the prostitute arrived at Holden’s room, Holden become too nervous and uncomfortable about the situation. Once she was there though, Holden changed his mind and wanted to just talk with the prostitute who did not know what to do. She ended up leaving after an argument over the money that was to be paid for her service. Holden did not pay her the rest of the money, and because of that, Maurice later came back with the prostitute, he took the rest of money that Holden apparently "owed" him and beat him leaving Holden severely irritated. After Maurice and the prostitute left, Holden felt so dejected and miserable that he even thought about committing suicide. Sunday morning Holden met two nuns in a subway restaurant and gave them a donation and ended up having a very enjoyable conversation with them. Later that afternoon, Holden arranged to have a date with Sally Hayes but then went to the park hoping to see his sister Phoebe. He did not see his sister, but he did help a child with his skates and in doing so, he was brought back memories of when he was a child. He went from the park to his date, for which he was early. The date ended up going badly and then he asked Sally if she wo...