The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong
English 9th
05/14/12
Ch. 10 Summary

The narrator does not want to go to bed, he was also bored. Thus, he decides to go to the lavender room to get a drink. In the lavender room, the waiter does not let the narrator get the drink since he figured that the narrator is under-aged; the narrator just orders a glass of coke. Furthermore, he sees three women behind his seat. He gives a couple glances and asks them for dance. The blond one—the cutest one—comes out first and dances with him. He really enjoys the dance with her. However, she does not listen to him carefully; all the three of the girls are looking for movie starts because they are obsessed with them. After the girls leave, the narrator pays for the drinks and comes out to the lobby.

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong

English 9th

05/05/12

Chapter 9 Summary

When the narrator arrives at the Penn station, he goes into the phone booth to call someone to pick him up. He does not want to call his parents because they will be irate when they hear their son got expelled from the school. Also, he does not want to wake anybody up, so he just takes a taxi to a hotel where he will stay for a couple of days. When he arrives at the hotel, he figures out that there are many perverts in the area. He thinks of a girl named, Anne Louise Sherman, who he had sex with. Now he remembers that he got a phone number and an address of a woman, who is not exactly a prostitute but who would do it once in a while, from a guy he met at Princeton University. The narrator calls her and asks for a cocktail with him, but she rejects him since it was too late at night.

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong
English 9th
05/01/12
Chapter 8

The narrator walks all the way to the train station to take a train since it is too late to call a taxi. A little after he sits down on the seat, a lady comes in and sits right next to the narrator even though many of the seats were empty. The narrator thinks the lady has a sex appeal even if she is old; he says that he just loves women. The lady figures that the narrator is a student from Pencey Prep and starts a conversation about her son going to the same school. The narrator lies to the lady about his name and her son being a “hotshot” at Pencey Prep. After the conversation, the narrator and the lady start reading magazines.

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong
English 9th
04/25/12
Chapter 7

The narrator sees the light in Ackley’s room and asks Ackley if he is awake because of the fight that he and Stradlater had. He is now angry that the narrator woke him up because he has to go to Mass in the morning. Even though Ackley wants to know what happened, the narrator does not tell him. The narrator asks if he could sleep in Ely’s bed tonight. (Ely is Ackley’s roommate.) Ackley does not reply clearly, so the narrator just decides to sleep in Ely’s bed. The narrator is still furious about Jane and Stradlater because he knows Stradlater’s technique; he can imagine how Stradlater has been giving Jane the time in the car. Suddenly, the narrator asks sleeping Ackley if he has to be Catholic. Ackley is annoyed and wakes up. He tells the narrator that he would not be comfortable if the narrator makes a joke about his religion. The narrator says that he is not making a joke about his religion and goes out. He thinks that he could get out of Pencey right now, so he packs his bags and gets his money. Right before he goes out from his dorm, he shouts, “Sleep tight, ya morons!”

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong

English 9th

04/17/12

Ch. 6 Summary

Stradlater comes back from a date with Jean. The narrator is anxious about either Jean or Stradlater’s homework. When he comes into the room and changes, he asks if the narrator did his homework. He checks it and becomes irritated because the narrator wrote about a baseball mitt, not a house or room as he asked for. The narrator takes the paper and tears it. After a long time without conversation, the narrator asks if Stradlater asked Jean his regards; he did not. Stradlater tells him that he gave her the time in his basketball coach’s car the whole time instead of going to New York. He does not even know if her name is Jean or Jane. This time, the narrator becomes furious and annoys Stradlater with the words he hates. Finally, Stradlater punches the narrator in the face which made him worried if he broke the narrator’s skull or any bones. The narrator thinks that Ackley might have heard everything that happened between him and Stradlater.

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong

English 9th

04/12/12

Chapter 5

On every Saturday night, Pencey Prep feeds the students steak. They give it because parents come to see their children on Sunday, and they might ask, “what did you have for dinner last night?” After dinner, the narrator goes to the movies with his friend Mal Brossard and Ackley. However, they don’t watch a movie but eat hamburgers and play the pinball machine. When the narrator comes back, he starts Stradlater’s homework; he decided to write about his little brother Allie, who passed away of leukemia. Allie was a very intelligent boy who was loved by his teachers and had red hair. He liked playing golf and baseball. The narrator says that he became angry and disturbed when his brother died. He finishes the homework by writing about his brother writing and reading poems on his baseball mitt. The narrator hears Ackley’s snore.

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong

English 9th

04/10/12

Chapter 4

Stradlater asks the narrator to do his homework while he is out meeting a girl. The narrator hesitates, but agrees to his favor. Stradlater tells the narrator that his date, Jean Gallagher, knows him. That shocked the narrator. He starts talking about her and her family to Stradlater even though it doesn’t interest him. He asks Stradlater to say hello to Jean for him. After Stradlater went out for a date, Ackely came in again, but this time, the narrator was happy to see him because he made the narrator forget about doing something serious like Stradlater’s homework.

The Catcher in the Rye

Inpyo Hong

English 9th

04/05/12

Chapter 3

  The narrator begins the chapter with the story of which dorm he lived and who was his roommate. The narrator was junior and his roommate was a senior, whose name was Stradlater. The narrator also mentions about his dorm, which was named after Ossenburger. Ossenburger was once a Pencey student, who “made a pot of dough in the undertaking business” after graduating Pencey Prep. Now, the narrator is in his dorm room reading Out of Africa that he accidently borrowed from the library. A kid named Ackely, who has mossy and awful teeth, came in and starts conversation with the narrator. However, the narrator doesn’t enjoy Ackely in his room and touching his belongings. Ackely shows his hatred of Stradlater while talking to the narrator. Finally, Stradlater comes in.