Why so serious Holden......?

Summary
Holden’s day starts out by giving Sally (A girl Holden used to mess with) a call. He arrives to their date a bit early and remembers a boy who used to room with him. He states that the kid could really whistle, and he admired his whistling skills, but he never told him. When Sally arrives he completely forgot about her being late, they go to a play. As she spoke, Holden explains how he hates he use of the word “marvelous.” Holden hated most of the play. He constantly criticized the level of acting, and hated most of all The Lunts. After the first act, the two went outside with the other audience member. Outside Sally sees a guy she recognizes. Holden hated the guy by his very walk and the way he stood. Sally and the guy have a look and then after the play, Sally and Holden leave. The two decide to go skating. As they were putting their skates on, Holden notices a dress Sally was wearing, and he loved it. The two were horrible skaters, and after a couple times of falling the two take a seat and have a drink. Holden started a about leaving the skate rink and take a car to Massachusetts. He gets excited and grabs Sally hands and sais the two can rent a place, when she questions him about money, he answered he will find a job. Before long the two began to argue. Holden would have the last word and call Sally a pain in his ass. Sally was extremely offended and left, Holden apologized like a madman. Later that day Holden met up with a guy he used to know, Luce. Holden stated that Luce was easy going, and instead of giving him advice he talked about sec with the students. Holden admired his knowledge of flits in Hollywood. Holden, however, always thought that Luce was a bit of a flit himself. When Luce arrives the two order drinks. Holden commented on Luces’ sex life. Luce was offended and threatened to leave, but Holden did not want him to leave, he dropped the conversation, but only for a few seconds. When Holden did get Luce to talk about his sex life, Luce reveals he has been having sexually relations with a much older Chinese woman. Holden, in a very childish way, is excited and curious. He began to ask Luce a thousand questions a second. But Luce could only stay for so long; he left after saying “Take it easy.” Holden gets horribly drunk and leaves the bar with the help of a waitress. As he walks in the street, then park, Holden trips and breaks the record he bought his sister as a gift. Holden was at rock bottom, and took the broken record pieces and stuck them in his pockets. But, the memory of his sister and home drove him to walk all the way to his house. When he arrives his house, Holden sneaks in and ended up in his older brothers room (his sister was sleeping there), and woke Phoebe up. The two have a casual conversation, but Phoebe was too smart for him and asks him why he is here so early. When she figured out he was kicked out she screamed and cried, saying that their father would kill Holden. He than left the room and got some cigarettes.
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“Please, have one more drink, I’m lonsome as hell. No kidding” (Salinger 149).
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Through out the book, Holden has not stated directly he is lonely. This is the first time he has ever blatantly showed his loneliness. After Luce left, Holden became raging drunk. He was not sad that Luce did not stay, but that he is alone. He called Luce for only one reason and that was to talk to someone. He was suicidal once, but this time he did not consider death one bit. He walked the streets alone after that, the park. When he entered his home, he was alone. Although Phoebe was in the apartment, it took Holden a total of thirty minutes to even have a single human contact.

The Cather in The Rye.....

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Holden decided to go around town the next day he woke up. He was in a taxi when he began to talk to the driver, Horwitz. Their conversation was spent on the ducks at a lagoon Holden used to go to. Holden started the conversation by asking Horwitz where the ducks go every winter. Horwitz, referred to as easily sored by Holden, got excited about the conversation. He was being vague with his speech turning around and asking Holden “why the hell do you want to know such a thing”. Holden still admits to liking the guy as he seems like a nice guy. The cab driver did not even seem to even care about what Holden had to say, he jut spit some facts at him. In the end, the cab driver tells Holden that as a living being we just follow nature, there is no real reason to things. Holden entered a bar named Ernie’s, the bar is named after it’s owner, Ernie, a phony but at the same time a real good piano player from Holden’s perspective. In the bar, Holden sees a bunch of phony people and even meet up with his older brothers’ ex-girlfriend. He quickly got away from her using the excuse that someone was waiting for him. Holden walked outside in the cold. As he walked the forty-one blocks he wonders about who stole his gloves. Holden began to tell a story about how he would be at the guy’s room, and find his gloves, but he was still afraid to even punch him in the face. Holden reveals himself to be yellow deep inside. When he reached the hotel he met an elevator boy, who turned out to be a pimp. He told Holden he would send a girl up to his room; five bucks for a throw and fifteen until midnight. Holden meets the girl, her name is Sunny and she was very nervous and young. The two did not get along, like most females with Holden; she leaves with the five bucks. However, before she left she said it was supposed to be ten bucks. Maurice, the pimp came back to collect the money Holden owed him. Holden and he had a discussion, but it ended with a slap and a single punch from Maurice. After his humiliating beating, Holden wne to the bathroom, went to bed, and then wondered about suicide.

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“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves (Salinger 89).”

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Up to this quote I thought that Holden was real in a way. He acts how feels and talks how he feels. However, he explains he is a coward deep inside. Although it is natural to be fearful in violent situations, but he says he tries to act tough at times. This to me seems, in his words, phony. He acts all tough, but he underneath that tough exterior is just a scared boy. I find him to be hypocritical, he hates the very people that he can relate to.