Catcher In The Rye 2

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much, but you get quite a lot of vitamins in the malted milk. H.V. Caulfield. Holden Vitamin Caulfield.’
He exaggerates big time and he swears a lot. Especially when he talks to his roommates. Goddam this and damn that. But he can’t stand the four-letter word.
‘I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody’d written ‘F*** you on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them-all cockeyed, naturally-what it meant, and how they’d all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days.’
He hates ‘phonies’, people who have an attitude. Holden really liked his younger brother Allie, who died. When Allie died, Holden spent all day in the garage and he broke all the windows. Now he can’t make fist with his right hand because of that.
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Ward Stradlater
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check if Stradlater was in the room as well. He hated Stradlater and wouldn’t come in if he was there. If Stradlater wasn’t, Ackley would lie down on your bed and scratch opens his pimples and wipe the pus all over your pillow.
Jane Gallagher
Holden met Jane during vacation. Jane’s Mother’s Doberman would come into the garden off the Caulfields and relieve himself. Mrs. Caulfield phoned Jane’s mom and made big stink out of it. That was a bad start but it turned out all right. Jane’s parents are divorced and her mom got married again.
“She was a funny girl, old Jane. I wouldn’t exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked ...

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