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.