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!”