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Chapter 19 Holden thinks about Luce who is three years older than Holden Holden says that he finds Luce amusing, even though he is effeminate and a phony Holde starts to ask questions about sex and annoyed by Holden’s juvenile comments and questions, Luce departs. Chapter 20 Holden stays at the bar and gets very drunk He decides to walk to the duck pond in Central Park to see if the ducks are still around He breaks the disk he had bought for Phoebe and becomes upset His hair is wet and he thinks about catching pneumonia, he imagines his funeral and remember his brother’s funeral Holden wants to talk to Phoebe, and he is running low on money, so he decides to risk going home He leaves
the park and begins the long walk home Chapter 21 Holden sneaks into his family’s apartment and looks for Phoebe, but she isn’t in her room He found Phoebe sleeping He sees her notes and drawings He finally wakes Phoebe, and she is overjoyed to see him After their conversation, she realizes that Holden is home two days early and must have been kicked out of school after her enthusiastic flurry of conversation, she realizes that Holden is home two days early and must have been kicked out of school and Holden gets a cigarette Chapter 22 Holden returns to Phoebe’s room and eventually gets her to listen. She responds by accusing him of hating everything. Phoebe asks what he wants to do with his life Holden says that he imagines a gigantic field of rye on a cliff full of children playing. He wants to stand at the edge of the cliff and catch the children when they come too close to falling off—to be “the catcher in the rye.” Chapter 23 Holden leaves Phoebe’s room to call Mr. Antolini, his English teacher and the teacher invites him to come over Holden goes back into Phoebe’s room and asks her to dance They hear, their parents coming and Holen tries to fan away the smell of the cigarette He then tells Phoebe goodbye, letting her know of his plan to leave New York and move out west alone. She loans him the Christmas money she’d been saving, and he leaves for Mr. Antolini’s. On the way out, he gives Phoebe his red hunting hat.