The Cather in The Rye.....

Summary
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.

Quote
“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).”

Reaction
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.