![]() He imagines himself catching all the people coming the rye and saving them from falling off a cliff. He has a little sister Phoebe, skinny but “nice skinny,” whom he longs to see again. He thinks he’s fairly sexy, yet every time a girl has said, “stop,” he has stopped, and so far they’ve all said it. He’s 16, but i t’s not the popular, romantic “sweet 16.” Here’s a boy who likes to tell whopping big lies just for the deviltry of it who likes to snarl and snap who likes to suppose, though he admits he doesn’t have the family brains, that he’s smart.īut for all the grown-up swagger on the surface, he is still 16 inside. His parents have heard the news, but expect him on Wednesday he decides to go three days early and have himself a time in New York. Pencey was “lousy,” in his opinion his roommate Stradtlater, his neighbor Ackley who cuts his toenails all over the place, his teachers, his courses were lousy and phony, too. ![]() Pencey has just followed the sensible example of several other prep schools and expelled him, for out of five courses he flunked four. Love this book! A must read for everyone!Ī YOUNG man possessed of a young man’s vigor and callowness and an old man’s jaundiced eye rip-snorts his way though this raucous novel and by turns delights, frightens, shocks you and leaves you close to the tears into which he himself bursts as the climax to his mad escapade.
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