Chapter+Questions+14-17

= //  Reading Assignment #4   // = = //  The Catcher in the Rye  // : Chap. 14-17 (p. 98-134). Whenever possible, note down a page number as reference. = =    = =   1. Why did Maurice hit Holden? = =  2. Holden said he felt like committing suicide. Why didn't he? = =  3. Identify Sally Hayes. = =  4. Why did Holden check out of the hotel, and where did he go? = =  5. Who did Holden meet at the "little sandwich bar" after he locked his bags at the station? = =  What did they talk about? = =    = =   6. What record did Holden get for Phoebe? Why? = =  7. What made Holden "not so depressed anymore" on his way to the record store? = =  8. Why didn't Holden like actors? = =  9. Why did Holden like the museum so much? = =  10. What did Holden think of "George something--"? = =  11. How did Holden's feelings for Sally change from the beginning of the date to the end? =
 * = Maurice hit Holden because Holden didn’t pay the prostitute her money.  =
 * =  He didn’t want to commit suicide because he didn’t want phonies stoping and staring at his body.   =
 * =  Sally Hayes according to Holden is a good looking girl but he believes that she is the biggest phony ever.   =
 * =  Holden checked out of the hotel because he didn’t feel like staying in any hotels and he wanted to go to the Grand Central Station but he stopped at a “little sandwich bar” to eat.    =
 * =  Holden met at the “little sandwich bar” two nuns. They talked about famous books likes Romeo and Juliet; Holden did not like the story too much but the nuns did.   =
 * =  Holden got Phoebe a record for a colored girl named Estelle Fletcher.   =
 * =  A little boy singing and humming on the street near the side walk made him “not so depressed anymore” on his way to the record store.   =
 * =  He didn’t like the actors so much because he thought that they were showing off because if “you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don’t watch it, you start showing off” (Salinger, page 127).   =
 * =  Holden liked the museum so much because it never changes; when he first went there and the last time he went there it was the same thing.    =
 * =  Holden thought that “George something” was the kind of phony that had to give himself room to answer a question. He thought that he was phony because of the kind of conversation he had with Sally (page 127).   =
 * =  Holden’s feeling for Sally changed from looking forward to the date to “I probably wouldn’t’ve taken her even if she’d wanted me to go with her” (page 134).   =