chapter 9

holdin arrives at the station but doesnt know who to call he cant call db because hes in hollywood and his sister is asleep. he debates on calling a girl he once dated up in new york but then remembers that her mom would probably call his. he stays at a hotel with a bunch of weird people in it like a guy wearing a dress and a couple that are spitting water at each other. he comments that hes a pretty sexual guy. he then calls a girl named faith up but she declines to meet with him.

chapter 8

He goes to the train station and climbs aboard sitting in the first few seats. eventually a women comes and sits by him which she is pretty attractive. she sees the pencey sticker and asks him if thats where he goes to school he says yes and she says she has a son that goes there. his name is ernest. holdin starts lying to her about her son and telling her how great of a guy he is when really hes a dick. he asks her she wants a smoke so they have a cigarette together then he asks her if she wants a drink and she declines.
holdin really lies alot and he hates people because their phonies.

chapter 7

holdin goes into ackleys room and asks if he can sleep in his roomates bed. ackley says he doesnt know because he doesnt want to give him permission to whats not his. ackley sees the blood and asks holdin what happened but he wont tell him. holdin goes over to the window and looks outside and suddenly feels all alone. he lays down in the roommates bed. he gets up and starts packing thinking about where he will go. he starts crying as hes leaving and yells at everyone as he leaves.
holdin actually seems normal he actually cares about something for once.

chapter 6

holdins roomate comes home from his date and holdin can tell somethings wrong. stradlater looks at the comp paper and starts yelling at holdin because he did it wrong. holdin gets pissed off because hes not the one that had to do it then holdin and stradlater get in a fight and stradlater ends up punchin him in the nose and he blacks out when he comes to he has blood all over. stradlater leaves and holdin gets up and goes to ackleys room for once
why was stradlater so mad he didnt do the paper he got out of it free.

chapter 5

holdin gets back from eating and goes to a movie. he ends up not watching the movie just eating and playing pinball. he goes back to the room to write the comp paper and ackley comes back in and holdin has to tell him to just leave so he can get some work done. he finally starts writing about his brothers baseball glove which he used to write poems on so when he got bored in the outfield he could read them. then he said his brother died of leukemia and starts talking about how great his brother was. he said when his brother died he punched all of the windows in the garage out and messed up his hand so bad that he cant make a fist now.
why does holdin write the paper? its not his he shouldnt have to do the work.

chapter 4

holdin and stradlater go to the bathroom so stradlater can shave. he says he has a date waiting downstairs. stradlater doesnt have very good hygene either he uses dirty razors that he never cleans. stradlater then asks holdin to write him a paper which is ironic because he's the one thats flunking out. holdin agrees and asks him who the date is and stradlater says she knows holdin and then says its a girl named jane. holdin and jane used to play checkers together when they were younger. she used to keep her kings in the back so she couldnt lose.
holdin seems to have everybody figured out but what do these people think of him?

chapter 3

holdin starts by talking about his dorm which is named ossenburger hall and how it was estabilished. holdin goes back to his room and starts reading a book called out of africa. he enjoys reading books mostly his brothers though. Ackley his dorm neighbor comes in his room while he is trying to read and starts messing with his stuff. Ackley doesn't care about anybodys stuff. He's a big kid with a lot of pimples who doesnt brush his teeth. Ackley sits down and starts cutting his toe nails and just letting them drop on the carpet so holdin tells him to do it over a table but he wont listen until holdin yells. Holdins roommate named stradlater comes in and ackley leaves because he doesnt like stradlater.
Holdin seems like a person that just likes to judge everyone else.

chapter 2

Holdin is still at spencer's house and sitting on his hard bed talking to the sick teacher. Spencer keeps reminding holdin that he flunked out and is wondering if he even cares to think about his future. spencer takes out one of his tests and starts reading the answers back to holdin which makes him angry. spencer also repeats everything he says which also makes holding angry. finally he can't take it anymore so he tells spencer a lie and goes back to his dorm.
this chapter shows holdin get pretty pissed off at someone that obviously cares about him.

chapter 1

Holdin starts the book talking about db his brother. His brother lives in hollywood for writing stories. Holdin attends pencey prep and is being kicked out of the school due to his grades. he's failing all of his classes except english. Holdin goes to the football game and stands at the top of the hill watching and trying to say goodbye but he just rolls his past memories at pencey over in his head which suddenly makes him sad. He ends the chapter by going to spencers, his teacher,house.
This book starts out boring cause all he's doing is talking about himself.