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. He is forced to admit to Phoebe that he was kicked out of school, which makes her mad at him. When he tries to explain why he hates school, she accuses him of not liking anything. He tells her his fantasy of being "the catcher in the rye," a person who catches little children as they are about to fall off of a cliff when playing on a rice field on the edge of a cliff
Holden had quite complex character. He sometimes acts like a 13-year-old but in the same time he can be quite reasonable. Holden´s mood swings and trastic changes of feelings could even could mean that he had somekind of bipolar disorder. He could literally hate a person in one second and love in the next. He criticises others alot for being phony. Only persone he really seemed to be fond of was his little sister Phoebe. The book has a slightly depressing undertone because Holdens thougts about the situation he was in and his surroundings were often very gloomy. The lousy hotel where he stayed was probably the gloomiest part of the book. The author uses slang and repeats often same words which is essentially quite similar to something that a teenager would do. This does not make, however, the text duller but makes it more lifelike. What surprised me was that even though it is about 60 years old but still alot of today's young people face similar problems as did Holden
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