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Summary

"The Catcher in the Rye"

By J.D. Salinger

Seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfild has just returned from a fencing meeting in New York City, which was a disaster. Furthermore, he has been kicked out of Pencey for fluking four subjects. After the boy leaves it for a Christmas break, he won't return. Holden doesn't think much of Pency, a boy's school full of phonies and crooks, but he's a little bothered about leaving without "a feeling some kind of a good-by". Watching the football game on Thomsen Hill at Pency Prep, he finally gets this sensation by remembering a day when he and couple of Pencey boys were throwing a football. The memory is vivid enough to give Holden some kind of true feeling for the place. As soon as this happens, he's off and running across the road to see his history teacher one last time. Some time later Holden takes a train to New York, because the boy does not want to return to his family and instead checks into the dilapidated Edmond Hotel.There he spends an evening dancing with three tourist girls and has a clumsy encounter with a prostitute.