Presentation Notes

Chapter 3:
-Holden is an overall extremely sarcastic person, it may be because he buries his emotions with sarcasm. He tries to hide the fact that he's in pain about various areas of his life.
-He cringes at the word "chiffonier" when his history teacher says it, then later on in the chapter he himself uses it, this is a sign that he is hypocritical.
-In this chapter Holden constantly repeats and emphasizes the word "Phony", which he believes everyone but him is.
Chapter 4:
-He is a pushover because he does Stradlater's composition while he goes out on a date.
-He's stubborn because he debates doing the composition even though he was going to do it and he he was staying in for the evening anyways.
-He writes his composition about his brother, Allie's baseball glove. He writes about this because it has a lot of detail for the descriptive composition and he has a lot of feelings about it. This shows that he isn't as heartless as we initially thinks he is.
Chapter 5:
-He begins talking more and more about his dead brother and we confirm how he feels for him like no other person in the world. He talks about him with such passion, and he's lively and bright about him,
Chapter 6:
-Holden is angry in this chapter. Angry about Stradlater going on a date with Jane and what they might have been doing in the Coach's car. Mad that Stradlater was mad about the composition, even when he was doing him a favor. He was overall just very frustrated.
Chapter 8:
-Holden lies constantly in this chapter.
-He claims that he can go on lying for hours after he has started.
-He makes emphasis on how beautiful Mrs.Morrow is and how much he loves women and how sexy they are. He loves everything they do.
Chapter 13:
- Holden starts this chapter thinking about how much of a coward he is.
-When he gets his hotel in NY, he is asked if he wants a prostitute and agrees.
-He noticed how young the prostitute was and how much she didn't care for the situation because she is a working lady, she just wants to do her job and leave.
-Holden gets very nervous and tried to come up with any excuse not to have sex with her.