He chats with the nuns and gives them a donation. Holden reminisces about his roommate at Elkton Hills, Dick Slagle who had cheap suitcases and would complain about how everything was bourgeois. At Grand Central Station, where Holden checks in his bags after leaving the hotel, he sees two nuns with cheap suitcases. Holden tells her that his father is a wealthy corporation attorney and his mother has not been healthy since Allie died. He makes a date to meet Sally for a matinee, but she continues to chat with Holden on the phone despite his lack of interest. According to Holden, Sally seems quite intelligent because she knows a good deal about the theater and literature, but is actually quite stupid. Holden calls Sally Hayes, who goes to the Mary A. Holden feels like committing suicide by jumping out the window, but he wouldn't want people looking at his gory body on the sidewalk. After Maurice is gone, Holden imagines that he had taken a bullet and would shoot Maurice in the stomach. Maurice punches him in the stomach before leaving. As Holden starts to cry, Sunny takes the money from his wallet. Holden argues with Maurice and threatens to call the cops, but Maurice says that his parents would find out that he spent the night with a whore. Maurice and Sunny the hooker knock on the door, demanding more money. Holden tells that his parents disagree on religion and none of his siblings attend church. Other than Jesus, the Biblical character he likes best is the lunatic who lived in the tombs and cut himself with stones. Finally he gets in bed and feels like praying, although he is "sort of an atheist." He claims that he likes Jesus, but the Disciples annoy him. He gives her five dollars, although she demands ten.Īfter the prostitute leaves, Holden sits in a chair and talks aloud to his brother Allie, which he often does whenever he is depressed. She is angry, but he still pays her, even though they argue over the price. Holden finally tells the prostitute, Sunny, that he just had an operation on his clavichord, as an excuse not to have sex. When she arrives, she does not believe that Holden is twenty-two, as he claims. He offers Holden prostitute for five dollars. While back at the hotel, Maurice, the elevator man, asks Holden if he is interested in a little tail tonight. Holden then reminisces about drinking with Raymond Goldfarb at Whooton. Holden finally concludes that he would yell at the thief but not have the courage to hit him. Although he would not do so aggressively, he wishes that he could threaten the person who stole them. He considers how he would confront a person who had stolen his gloves. Holden walks back to his hotel, although it is forty-one blocks away. Rather than spend time with Lillian Simmons, Holden leaves. Holden notices how she blocks the aisle in the place as she drones on about how handsome Holden has become. and introduces Holden to a Navy commander she is dating. The girl, Lillian Simmons, asks about D.B. Suddenly, a former girlfriend of Holden's brother, D.B., recognizes him. Holden notices a Joe Yale-looking guy with a beautiful girl he is telling the girl how a guy in his dorm nearly committed suicide. Ernie's is filled with prep school and college jerks, as Holden calls them. He asks what happens to the ducks in Central Park during the winter, but the two get into an argument when Horwitz thinks that Holden's questions are stupid. In the cab to Ernie's, Holden chats with Horwitz, the cab driver. used to frequent before he went to Hollywood. Despondent by the course of his thoughts, Holden decides to go to Ernie's, a nightclub in Greenwich village that D.B. Holden suspected that her stepfather had tried to "get wise with" Jane. The one time that he and Jane did anything sexual together was after she had a fight with Mr. Holden reminisces about Jane's smile, and admits that she is the only person whom he showed Allie's baseball mitt. Several days later, he introduced himself to her, but it took some time before he could convince her that he didn't care what their dog did. Holden met Jane when his mother became irritated that the Gallagher's Doberman pinscher relieved itself on their lawn. Upon leaving the Lavender Room, Holden begins to think of Jane Gallagher and worries that Stradlater seduced her.
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