Quotes

1. “I started to call down and have them send out some breakfast, but I was sort of afraid they might send it up with old Maurice.”-Holden (page 105)
 * Holden ordered a prostitute and Maurice told him that it was only $5. But when she came, he didn’t end up sleeping with her, he just wanted to talk to her. She said it was $10 but Holden only gave her $5 because Maurice told him that. She and Maurice came to get the rest of the money.

2. “I thought if you were taking up a collection I could make a small contribution. You could keep the money for when you take up a collection.” –Holden (page 109)
 * Holden was lonely and was shocked when he thought about how the nuns not only were living for only God but the always are helping other people. They are totally selfless.

3. "I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. He was singing the song “if a body catch a body coming through the rye”… it made me feel not so depressed anymore.” –Holden (page 115)
 * Holden is talking about the little boy who was walking on the curb and his parents on the sidewalk. The little boy might have reminded him of his little brother Allie.

4. “But the worst part was you could tell they all //wanted// to go tot the movie.”-Holden (page 116)
 * Holden doesn’t like that people actually like to watch movies. He thinks they are a waste of time and it just kills time. He doesn’t like the fact that it takes your mind away from something like a distracting. He also thinks the movies are phony too.

5. “Because you can’t, that all. In the first place, we’re both children. And did you ever stop to think what you’d do if you didn’t get a job when your money ran out? We’d starve to death. The whole thing’s so fantastic; it isn’t even-” – sally (page 132) 6. “The terrible part, though, is that I meant it when I asked her. That’s the terrible part. I swear to God I’m a madman.”-Holden (page 134) 7. “The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren’t too flitty-looking-I mean they didn’t have their hair too long or anything-but you could tell they were flits anyway.”-Holden (page 142)
 * This is when Holden tells her that they should go away together. Sally has a whole plan of what she wants to do with her life and how she wants to go to college and live in the city and have a family.
 * This is when Holden was telling Sally that he wanted to run away with her and she turned him down. This was the first time he admitted that he was crazy. If sally would have said that she wanted to go he would have went with her because he just wanted to get away from new york city.
 * Holden was in the bar waiting for Carl and he noticed that there were flits sitting at the bar. He might have brought this up because they bother him, or they are just other people to make fun of. He was waiting for carl to come

8. “//LISTEN.// Let’s get one thing straight. I refuse to answer any typical Caulfield questions tonight. When in the//hell// are you going to grow up?”-Carl (page 146) 9. “Have just one more drink. I’m lonesome as hell. No kidding.” - Holden (page 149)
 * Holden always asks him weird questions about his sex life and Carl things that he is being immature. Carl acts like he is more mature and that is why he is dating an older women.
 * He is talking to Carl. In this chapter he admitted that he was a madman and lonesome.