The Catcher In The Rye Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter 1
1) What Holden means is he thinks his brother is betraying his principles
2) The story begins with Holden being in a mental hospital.
3) Pencey prep is in Pennsylvania and it’s the school Holden goes to.
4) Holden let down the fencing team when he left all the fencing equipment on the train.
5) Holden was kicked out of Pencey prep because he was failing all classes except one.
6) Holden does not seem to be good in mental and physical health he seems depressed and he smokes which is not good.
Chapter 2
1)Mr. Spencer is one of Holden’s teachers and Holden goes to see him because he wants to give Holden advice and to say bye.
2) Spencer repeats himself, wipes his nose with his shirt, and and throws paper over his bed and misses.
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Chapter 4
1) Stradlater is Holden’s roommate , Stradlater appears to be a clean person but he is not and you can tell by his razor, and he looks fine he has a good amount of facial hair.
2) What Holden is trying to say is a good paper is about the content and not about the grammar mistakes. Ackley says what makes a basketball player is its built but Holden says it’s based on their skills not built.
3)Holden is nervous because he likes jane and he knows Stradlater will hurt her.
Chapter 5
1) Allie is Holden’s brother who died from cancer and his baseball mitt is important to Holden because it is where he wrote all his poems.
2) Holden parents wanted him to be psychoanalyzed because the night Allie died Holden went crazy and broke all the windows in his garage.
Chapter 6
1) Holden and Stradlater fighted over Jane.
2) A pacifist is a person who does not use violence to solve their problems. Holden is not a pacifist.
Chapter 7
1) Holden decided to stay in Ackley’s room because he didn’t want to stay in the same room as Stradlater after their fight.
2) Holden then decides to go to NY.
3) Holden’s final goodbye to Pencey prep is “sleep tight you