Chapter 5 of The Catcher in the Rye Summary

Holden begins the chapter by telling us that every Saturday evening Pencey serves the students steak. Holden's theory is that they do that because many of the kid's families come to visit on Sunday and when they ask their kids what they ate for dinner the previous night they can say "steak" so the parents are impressed by the school. In this chapter we are also introduced to "Mal Brossard" which we can guess his name represents Holden's bad choices in friends. In many languages "Mal" means bad.