Holden seems to be in some kind of rehabilitation center for losing his mind. He talks about some of the people he talked about which means the story was all in the past. "...I sort of miss everybody I told about."

This ending was probably the most frustrating ending I have ever read.

Chapter 25- Catcher in the Rye

Holden starts losing his mind in this chapter. For example, he feels as if he is disappearing and starts calling for his dead brother, Allie. "Allie, don't let me disappear..."

Chapter 24- Catcher in the Rye

Holden reacts very childish again when the topic of sex comes up in the story. He rushes out Mr. Antolini's house after thinking that he tried to have a homosexual approach towards him. "I felt something on my head, some guy's hand."

Chapter 23- Catcher in the Rye

Holden gives Phoebe his red hunting hat before leaving his house. This could mean that he doesn't need it anymore. This could symbolize that Holden just doesn't care anymore.

Chapter 22- Catcher in the rye

This chapter is very important because of the reference to the title of the book. "If a body meet a body coming through the rye." Holden states what he wants to do wit his life which is basically watching over children and saving them.

Chapter 21- Catcher in the Rye

Holden adores his little sister, Phoebe. He says great things about her, for being so critical to other people in the world. Holden repeats "She kills me" several times in chapter twenty one meaning he is fascinated by the way she acts.

Chapter 20- Catcher in the Rye

In chapter twenty, Holden makes another reference to the ducks. " I figured I'd go by that little lake and see what the hell the ducks were doing." He is still wondering what the ducks are doing when the lake freezes. Therefore this is significant to Holden.

Chapter 19-Catcher in the Rye

Holden seems to be losing his mind as the story progresses. He becomes very childish while at the Wicker Bar with Luce, his friend from the Whooton School. He starts interrogating Luce about sex, which was a topic that Luce always talked about at Whooton. "You do? Why? No, kidding, they better for sex and all?" Luce even asks Holden if he will ever grow up, " Same old Caulfield. When you going to grow up?"

Chapter 18- Catcher in the Rye

Holden states that he can't stand the Army and could never be in it. This could be a symbol for his immaturity and not being ready to face the real world as an adult. "...but you have to stay in the Army so goddamn long. That's the whole trouble."

Chapter 17-Catcher in the Rye

Holden starts to have an emotional breakdown in chapter seventeen. On his date with Sally, He tells her that they should run away together and live in a cabin. "we'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out." This chapter starts to show Holden's emotions collapsing.

Chapter 16- Catcher in the Rye

Holden seems to have a positive attitude towards children. "God, I love it when a kid's nice and polite when you tighten their skate for them or something." He offers her some hot chocolate and tightens her skates. He treats the little girl in the park like she was his sister, Phoebe.

Chapter 15- Catcher in the Rye

Holden is critical towards the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare while talking to the nuns. He criticizes Romeo and Juliet and says that it is there fault that Mercutio, his favorite character, died. "It was Romeo's fault. I mean I liked him the best in the play, old Mercutio" and "He was very smart and entertaining and all..." Holden's thoughts about a smart person dying, Mercutio, could be related to his brother, Allie's death.

Chapter 14- Catcher in the Rye

Holden has a very good imagination. In Chapter fourteen, he gets punched by a pimp named Maurice and Holden over exaggerates the situation. He imagines that he was shot and blood was spilling everywhere. "I sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my guts." His imagination runs wild in this chapter.

Chapter 13- Catcher in the Rye

Holden is intimidated by growing up in the chapter thirteen. Sex is used as a symbol of growing up and Holden has a hooker in his room but decides not to have sex with her. "I don't feel very much like myself tonight. I've had a rough night. Honest to God. I'll pay you and all, but do you mind very much if we don't do it?"

Chapter 12- Catcher in the Rye

Holden is very immature in this chapter specifically. Instead of sitting with an old friend of his brother's, Lillian Simmons, at the night club, he just leaves. "After I'd told her I had to meet somebody, I didn't have any goddamn choice except to leave."

Chapter 10- Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield can be very mature for being a sixteen year old. For example he associates with older women in the Lavender Room. He acts very grown up towards the ladies and even gets to dance with all of them, "I danced with them all - the whole three of them - one at a time."

Chapter 11- Catcher in the Rye

In Chapter eleven of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Holden has a flashback to a time when he was with Jane Gallagher. His flashback consists of many times where he sticks up for Jane Gallagher. He sticks up for her when his mom says she is not pretty.

Chapter 9- Catcher in the Rye

The question about where the ducks go when the lakes freeze has been asked by Holden for the second time in the story. "By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?" This is asked by Holden to the cab driver and is also asked in Chapter two.

Chapter 8- Catcher in the Rye

Holden accuses many of the people at his school of being phonies, but Holden can also be phony himself making him a hypocrite. He even gives out a fake name, Rudolf Schmidt, to a mom of a kid at his school, Ernest Morrow. He lies to the mother saying that her son is a star at Pencey, when really "Her son was doubtless the biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey, in the whole crumby history of the school." He continues to lie to her on the way to the city.

Chapter 7- Catcher in the Rye

Holden uses a good amount of sarcasm in this chapter towards Ackley especially. He says things like "...I just want to thank you for being such a goddamn prince, that's all" and " Tell me the story of your fascinating life, Ackley kid." This quality of Holden has came up more than once up to this point in the point, therefore making it important.

chapter 6-Catcher in the Rye

Holden has a crush on Jane Gallagher. He is jealous that his roommate, Stradlater went on a date with her. Holden gets very angry with Stradlater and shows this by interrogating his roommate about how the date went, "Did you go to New York?" and "Where'd you go with her if you didn't go to New York?"

Chapter 5- Catcher in the Rye

Holden, the main character, is very critical about most people in his life. But when he talks about Allie, his dead brother, Holden only mentions good things about him. "He was also the nicest, in lots of ways," Holden cared greatly about his younger brother.

Chapter 4- Catcher in the Rye

In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a characteristic of Holden is shown. Holden Caulfield is immature for being a sixteen year old. Holden constantly bothers his friend Ward Stralater, while he is getting ready for a date, "All of a sudden - for no good reason, really, except that I was sort of in the mood for horsing around - I felt like jumping off the washbowl and getting Stradlater in a half nelson." Also Holden acts very childish when Stradlater reveals to him that his date knows Holden by getting very nervous and repeating, "I oughta go down and at least say hello to her," several times.

Chapter 3- Catcher in the Rye

In Chapter three of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is very critical of his peers. Holden criticizes the people around him whether they are someone he doesn't like or even one of his friends. Holden talks badly about Robert Ackley just picking out his flaws as soon as he enters the room, "The whole time he roomed next to me, I never even once saw him brush his teeth" and "besides that he had a lot of pimples." Even though Ward Stradlater was someone Holden thought of as a friend, it didn't stop him from criticizing Stradlater, "He's conceited..."

Chapter 2- Catcher in the Rye

In Chapter two of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is very irritable to unimportant things. Holden provides many examples that show he is agitated by the simplest of things. For example, Mr. Spencer, his sick teacher, starts talking to Holden and he just goes on thinking about the flaws of the old man that bothers him, "He was always yelling, outside class. It got on your nerves somtimes" and " I don't like to see old guys in their pajamas and bathrobes anyway." These annoyances force Holden to ponder about them which only makes him more irritable.

Chapter 1-The Catcher in the Rye

In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, chapter one reveals that Holden Caulfield despises the school he attends, Pencey Prep. He believes it to be fake, "They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hot-shot guy on a horse jumping over a fence...I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place." Holden does not think highly of the people who attend Pencey either. For example "Pencey was full of crooks," shows another reason for Holedn's hatred towards his school.