Chapter 6 of Catcher in the Rye Summary

In the beginning of Chapter 6 of Catcher in the Rye, Holden tells us about how he feels when he worries, which happens to be frequently. He explains that he feels the need to go somewhere-anywhere. To move. But he can't even bring himself to do so because he is too worried to even do that. It's like his body is frozen in worry. From what Holden tells us about this trait of his, we can infer that he lets his emotion take himself over, that is one of his weaknesses. When Stradlater arrives home from his date he asks Holden for his composition he asked him to write and instantly gets angry because it was supposed to be a descriptive piece on a room but he wrote about his brother's baseball glove. Stradlater then tells Holden that he can't do anything right, he always defies instruction and that's why he's failing all of his classes. Being the statement-maker Holden is, he lights a cigarette in the dorm to annoy Stradlater. He cannot stand when Holden breaks the rules, especially smoking in the dorms. Holden gets offensive about Jane, asking where they went and what they did. He gets so angry that he tried hitting Stradlater whilst he is brushing his teeth to "split his goddam throat open". It's obvious that Holden has major internal issues, he is a troubled soul.