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(Suspicion) Stradlater came was coming down the corridor and met Holden as he passed through their dorm room door. Holden was hoping that he gave Jane his regards because she was one of his friends growing up. Stradlater wasn’t really in to talking with Holden when Holden kept asking questions about Jane. Finally Holden had suspicion that Jane and Stradlater did a little bit more than just go on a date. Holden was getting worried and was shaky inside. Stradlater was not responding to his question and that’s when Holden know what they really did tonight. (Page 43) (Phoniness) Holden was lugging himself to his seat on the train and shortly after he sat down a lady sat down next to him. Out of all the other empty seats she had to sit …show more content…
Holden was supposed to write about a special room or place but instead he wrote about Allie and his left handed baseball mitt. This brought back some grief. Holden wrote about how Allie had poems written on his baseball mitt, but didn't use Allies name. Holden shared with us how Allie died from Leukemia when Holden and his family were up in maine. After it all happened holden punched all the windows in his garage out and tried breaking the car windows. (38-39) (Hospitality) Holden was at his house with Phoebe in the middle of the night when his parents weren’t home. Holden knew he couldn’t stay at his house because his parents might catch him home. So Holden called up Mr. Antolini to see if he could stay the night at his house. Mr. Antolini was very quick to answer and told Holden that he was more than welcome to stay at their house for the next couple nights. (Low self-esteem) Maurice had just gave Holden the ole’ knuckle sandwich because holden refused to cough up the extra five dollars. After, Holden was thinking about what if he went down to the elevator and started plugging Maurice up. Holden knew he was to weak inside to do it. So Holden took a long bath and once he got out he felt like suicide would be best for him but again he was to weak inside to even try

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