Sunday, February 15, 2015

Catcher in the Rye chapters 8-9

In chapters eight and nine Holden takes a cab to the train station. He then talks about how he usually buys phony magazines but this time he dosent because he sad. A lady gets on train too and sits next to him even though there were tons of empty seats because they were the only two on the train. He says that she is a nice lady and has a good telephone voice and she sees the sticker that says Pence college on his suite case and she asked Holden if he went to that school because her boy did. He said yes and lied about his name he said he was Rudolf Schmidt, that was the janitors name.  Her sons name was Ernest Morrow  and Holden wasn't very fond of him but he lied to Mrs. Morrow any ways saying how popular he was and how everyone liked him. Then she asked why is he going home so early and if something was wrong and of course Holden lies again and  says that its nothing serious he just has a small tumor in his head and she says she wishes him the best of luck and that he should come to her house and hang out. He finally got off at the Penn station and he wanted to call someone but he couldn't figure out anyone to call and he went throght this long list of people and finally decided not to call anyone. So he leaves and gets into a cab and goes to the Edmont Hotel. The bell boy was an old ball mad which was around 65 and he finally gets to room and he looks out and there is a lot of wierdos doing nasty things. He ends up calling this burlesque dancer that he got her number from some guy at a party, Eddie. She couldn't get a drink with him that night so he said he couldn't go any other time so that was a dead end for him.

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