Summary of Chapters 1-2 of Catcher in the Rye

In chapter 1 of Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield, the protagonist, is introduced. Though the action is limited in these two opening chapters, they do reveal quite a bit about our main character. What we can tell is that he seems to be the troubled and angsty teenage types. He can be described as defiant due to his background of being kicked out of school after school, and willfully so. He's a huge complainer, he never stops complaining about about how "phony" the rich kid "crooks" are at his prestigious and expensive school, Pencey, are. When he goes to visit his History professor prior to being kicked out of the school, he reveals that he was completely  self-aware of his lack in drive academically. His professor reads to him his sarcastic and brief essay on the Egyptians and at the bottom of the paper he writes that he understands if the professor has to fail him and to not feel bad in doing so. He has a very "I don't care" attitude. He isolates himself in his comfortable, negative and slightly bitter cocoon.