The Catcher in the Rye
to Manhattan three days early, stay in a hotel, and not tell his parents that he is back. He
leaves the dormitory in the middle of the night and heads out to New York. There he rents a
room in some hotel. He spends his evenings in the hotel dancing with different girls and
drinking. One day he even encountered a prostitute, who he payd and then told off. During
those three days he spent in New York, he could be described as a lonely and drunken
teenager, who wanders around the city aimlesly.
On the second day, he meats his former girlfriend in a museum. He offers the girl to run away
with him but as she refuses, Holden gets frustrated and goes to the park where he used to go
as a youngster. The evening gets colder and he decides to sneak in to his parents appartment
to visit his little sister Phoebe. She is the most important person in Holdens life. He can rely
on her and look for her support, because he thinks Phoebe is the only person on Earth, who
can understand him