Catcher In The Rye Chapter 1 Outline

The Catcher in the Rye/ Chapters 1-20 The book begins with Holden who is the narrator and main character talking about his life in the past. Holden’s brother is mentioned, he lives in Hollywood as a writer and has written many different books. He goes on talking about his parents and his life till now. Holden attends Pency Prep, a school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, but is being expelled for not keeping up with his academics. He failed four out of five classes. As the story goes on it is apparent that Holden is very clumsy and lacks effort, an example being when he lost the fencing teams equipment. The night of the football game Holden decided to say one last goodbye to one of his teacher named, Mr. Spencer his former history teacher. Although
Holden leaves the hotels night club and walks to the lobby. While walking he begins to think about Jane and all the memories they have had together. He waits for a taxi then goes to another night club named Greenwich Village nightclub. While there he only drinks a cup of scotch and decided to leave because a girl that he used to date was there. Holden walks back to the hotel and in the elevator going back to his room, Holden is offered a prostitute for five dollars and he accepts. The prostitute Sunny arrives to the room but leaves shortly because Holden is nervous. It’s shocking to me that a young boy has the capability of doing so many things without getting caught by his parents. The next day he schedules a date with a friend named Sally. Holden checks out of the hotel and leaves his stuff in a locker. Holden soon becomes worried that his mother will become even more depressed once finding out that he has been expelled from school. Trying not to let this bother him he heads to his date with Sally. After taking her out on the date Holden seems to become a bit uncontrolled and begins talking about a plan to run away with her but Sally just looks at him crazy. Soon Sally becomes angry and Holden leaves. He goes to see a