In the hotel room, Holden repeatedly tells Allie, out loud, to get his bike and join him at the home of a childhood friend, Bobby Fallon. Holden once refused to take Allie with him when he and Bobby were going shooting with BB guns, and the guilt he feels about this incident prompts him to repeat those words, almost in an attempt to take back that day and do it differently.
In bed, Holden has greater difficulty with conventional prayer. He wants to speak with Jesus but can't. He "likes" Jesus but finds the Disciples annoying and considers himself an atheist. He is bothered that the Disciples repeatedly let Jesus down, indicating the importance of friendship and loyalty to Holden. It is telling that, other than Jesus, Holden's favorite character in the Bible is "that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones.
Recall that he tells us his story from a mental health clinic or sanitarium in California. It is little wonder that Holden identifies with the madman. Holden, too, is one of the legion, one of the many. Sunny and Maurice interrupt Holden's spiritual musings. They want the other five dollars they say Holden owes them.
Holden struggles but is no match for the bigger, stronger, meaner Maurice. Something always happens…I came quite close to doing it a couple of times, though. One time in particular, I remember. What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. The Catcher in the Rye. Plot Summary. Caulfield Mr.
Morrow Ernie. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of every Shakespeare play. Sign Up. Already have an account? Sign in. She really was. I think it was because she was young as hell. She was around my age. It saddens him to think of her going to a store to buy the green dress that she has worn for him and that he hangs in the closet so it won't get "all wrinkly," as Sunny puts it, in her child-like language.
When "Jim Steele" says he is 22, she responds, "Like fun you are. Holden tells us that this child with her squeaky little voice is much more frightening than a "big old prostitute, with a lot of makeup on her face and all.
The names, "Sunny" and "Jim Steele," are ironic; neither name fits the person. Freudian critics delight in analyzing their significance. Remember that Salinger 's boyhood nickname was "Sonny. What has he revealed about himself? Holden needs a way out of this "big mess. He claims that he recently had surgery on his "clavichord," which Holden may or may not know is an old musical keyboard instrument.
He tells Sunny that the clavichord is located "quite a ways down in the spinal canal. She sits on his lap and says he is cute.
She says he reminds her of some guy in the movies. Then she starts talking crudely, and Holden ends the session.
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