Guiding Questions:

Chapter 9

What does Holden think of doing at the

start of this chapter? And why?

The cab driver thinks Holden is crazy for
asking him a certain question. What is this
question? And is it a question that he has
been concerned about before?
Before going in the hotel what does Holden
do?
What does Holden first see at the hotel?
Who does Holden end up calling?

Summary: Chapter 9
Arriving at Penn Station in New York, Holden considers calling someone.
We find out in this chapter that Holden has a little sister named Pheobe.
He runs through a list of people but after twenty minutes, he emerges

from the phone booth having called no one.

He walks to the taxi stand and accidentally gives his home address, and
then asks to go to the Edmont Hotel, which is cheap.
In his loneliness, Holden even tries to strike up a conversation with the
taxi driver, asking him whether he knows where the ducks from Central
Park go when the water freezes.
When he gets to the hotel, Holden looks out the window of his room and
notices the "perverts and morons" in the windows across from his
Holden contemplates on Calling Jane or not.
However, instead he ends up calling Faith Cavendish, whose telephone
number he was given from some "guy that went to Princeton".
She supposedly "does not mind doing it once in a while".
He asks her to go for cocktail that same night but she refuses. Instead
she asks to go for cocktails tomorrow and now Holden refuses.

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 10
Who does Holden talk about a lot, but

cannot bring himself to call?

Holden thinks he is the only _______ in
his family.
Where does Holden decide to go to in the
hotel? Who does he meet there?
What happens to Holden at the end of the
chapter?

Would You Like to Use Your Life Line?

Who would you call for help when you needed it
the most, and why?

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 11

What is Holden still concerned about?

How did Holden meet Jane? and what

memories does he have with her?

What is the item that Holden only showed
Jane?
When is the first time that Holden got really
close to Jane?
Although they never hooked up, what did
they do?
Where does Holden decided to go at the
end of this chapter?

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 11

What is Holden still concerned about?

How did Holden meet Jane? and what

memories does he have with her?

What is the item that Holden only showed
Jane?
When is the first time that Holden got really
close to Jane?
Although they never hooked up, what did
they do?
Where does Holden decided to go at the
end of this chapter?

Guiding questions:
Chapter 12

What do Holden and the cab

driver talk about?

What does Holden notice when
he gets into the bar?
Who does he meet there?
What excuse does Holden give
when he decides to leave?

Quotes
Maybe Im not all yellow. I dont know. I think
maybe Im just partly yellow and partly the
type that doesnt give much a damn if they
lose their gloves p.89
..
What you should be is not yellow at all. If
youre supposed to sock somebody in the jaw,
and you sort of feel like doing it , you should do
it p.89

Summary: Chapter 12

On the way to the bar in a taxi, Holden complains how he always gets "those

vomity kind of cabs."

Once again, Holden tries to strike up a conversation with the cab driver ( Mr.
Horwitz) and find out where the ducks go in the winter. However, the cab
driver starts talking about where the fish go in the winter.
Holden asks him to go have a drink but again he gets rejected.
Holden enters Ernies and is surprised at how crowded it is at such a late hour.
He also says that it is filled with a bunch of morons.
He is shown to yet another bad table, at which he is able to hear the
conversations of the couples on either side of him.
While Holden sits there smoking and drinking, a girl named Lillian Simmons
comes up to him and asks about his brother D.B., whom she once dated.
She introduces him to the Navy guy who is with her and she asks Holden if
he would like to join them.
Holden refuses the offer, saying he is about to leave. Holden is immediately
sad that he told this lie, for he now feels he has to leave since he has said he was
going.

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 13
As Holden walks back to the Hotel,

what does he start thinking about ?

Why does Holden change his mind
about going to the bar?
Who is Sunny?
How does Holden feel when she
comes into his room?

Summary: Chapter 13

Holden walks all the way back to his hotel in the cold.
As he is walking, he starts thinking about when he lost his gloves, which he thinks were

stolen by someone at Pencey.

Holden puts on his hunting hat and decides to go to another bar.
He changes his mind when he sees two guys emerging from the bar.
Back at the hotel, Holden is approached by the elevator operator, Maurice, who promises
to send him a prostitute in fifteen minutes.
Holden agrees to the offer, and told the elevator man that he is 22 years old.
He cleans up and then paces nervously around the room, waiting for the girl.
Holden says that he's a virgin. Not that he hasn't had a few opportunities, it's just that he
never got around to it.
Sunny soon arrives, and Holden introduces himself as Jim Steele.
When he tries to strike up a conversation, Sunny wants to know what he is waiting for.
Holden's not up for it, so he makes up a lie about having had a recent operation on his
clavichord which is a music instrument
He apologizes, pays her five dollars, and tells her to leave.
Sunny tells Holden that the price is ten dollars.
He refuses to pay her more.
Sunny is very upset and asks him to get her dress and leaves.

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 14
What is Holden thinking about at the start of this

chapter?
Why does he decide to pray?
Who comes and visit Holden?
Why do they come?
What happens to Holden?
What does Holden decide to do at the end of this
chapter?

Summary: Chapter 14
After

Sunny leaves, Holden smokes a few cigarettes and thinks about a time he
refused to take his little brother Allie with him somewhere.
The thought depresses him, and he unexpectedly gets into bed with the urge to
pray.
When he tries to form the words of a prayer, all he can hear is Sunny calling him a
"crumb- bum".
As he decides to get up and have another cigarette, there is a knock on his door.
Maurice and Sunny are waiting outside. The pimp demands another five dollars from
Holden, insisting that the price was ten dollars.
Holden refuses to pay
As Maurice threatens him, Sunny goes into the room and takes an additional five
dollars from Holdens wallet.
Holden bursts into tears and challenges Maurice to a fight.
Maurice punches Holden in the stomach. He falls to the floor, crying and hurt, as
Maurice and Sunny leave.
When Holden gets off the floor, he imagines himself killing Maurice in the elevator.
He also fantasizes that he is a tough guy from the movies, who has been shot in the
abdomen, and he pictures himself committing suicide by jumping from the window.
Holden tries to calm himself by going to the bathroom and take a good shot of
bourbon.
Afterwards, he takes a bath and then attempts to go to sleep.
However, what he really felt like doing was committing suicide.

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 15
Why doesnt Holden end up calling room service?
Who else does he think about calling ?
Who does he end up calling?
Why does Holden decide to check out of the

hotel? Where does he go?

Who does Holden meet when he is having
breakfast?
What is the first thing he notices on them?
What does Holden offer to do for them?

Summary: Chapter 15

Holden wakes up at around ten oclock on Sunday morning, surprised not to have slept later.
He is about to call room service, but his fear that Maurice will deliver the food makes him

change his mind.

He also thinks about calling Jane Gallagher, but calls Sally Hayes instead.
They make a date for two oclock that afternoon. He realizes he does not have much money left,
so he checks out of the hotel.
Holden takes a taxi to Grand Central Station. He checks his baggage into a locker strong box
there and eats breakfast in the cafeteria.
Two nuns come and sit near him and he talks to them; one is an English teacher and Holden
discusses literature with her.
He notices their cheap suitcases, which make him think of Dick Slagle, whom he roomed with at
Elkton Hills and also had very cheap luggage.
Holden had very nice, very expensive luggage that he at first kept on the racks for everyone to
see.
Out of concern for Slagle, Holden decided to put his luggage under his bed, too.
Slagle took Holdens luggage from under the bed and pretended it was his.
While they are eating, Holden decides to give the nuns a contribution of ten dollars despite the
fact that he does not have a lot of money left.
He even offers to pay their bill, but they refuse.
After they leave, Holden wishes he had given them more than ten dollars.

Guiding Questions:
Chapter 16
Who is Sally Hayes?
At the start of this chapter, who is Holden still

thinking about?
What does Holden want to buy Phoebe?
Who does Holden call?
Why does Holden go to Central Park?
Why might the song the boy is singing be
significant?
How would you describe Holdens feelings
towards children?

Quote
If a body catch a body
coming through the rye.
P.115