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In the first chapter, Holden (the protagonist) begins to recount his past Christmases. Holden explains how he was expelled from the Pencey colony and how it is very demanding. Even so, as the story progresses we realize that it does not comply with everything it says in its advertising.

A part of that, in this first chapter he also tells us about his brother DB, who works in Hollywood and thanks to that comes to see him often (since it is not far from Pennysylvania), he also tells us that he has a jaguar and it is described to us by a little personality.
In addition, that same day there was a party to which finally Holden does not attend since he had just returned from New York because on the one hand he was not very interested and on the other hand he had to go with the history teacher.

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When he arrived at his teacher's house, Mr. Spencer, his wife, opened the door and took him to the room where Mr. Spencer was. The professor's wife looked very sad and Mr. Spencer too.

Holden and the professor began to talk about life, Holden's studies and how his parents would take another expulsion. When the conversation ended, Spencer read Holden's essay on the Egyptians. Holden did not want the professor to read it, so he sat down and said mentally: “I had to sit there and listen to that crap”.

And Holden finally left.

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In this chapter Holden confesses that he is the best liar, since he lies telling Spencer that he will go to the gym while he goes to his room, since he is tired of everything Mr. Spencer was saying.

On the way to the room, he talks about the appearance of the room, when he arrives he sits down in his chair, suddenly Ackley, his roommate opposite, comes in and asks him to get him some scissors, to cut his nails. While Holden looks for the scissors, Stradlater's tennis racket falls on top of his head and Ackley laughs. While he is cutting his nails, Ackley begins to speak badly of Stradlater, Holden's roommate, and when he hears his comments, he is offended and defends his partner.

While they are talking about Stradlater, Stradlater appears and asks Holden to leave a jacket of his because he has to go on a date.

When Stradlater enters, he and Ackley greet each other very falsely and Ackley leaves the room because he does not like Stradlater.

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In the fourth chapter, Holden accompanies Stadlater to the bathroom. While Stadlater shaves, they start talking and he asks Holden to write him an essay for the literature class and Holden accepts. After that, the issue of the girls comes out and it turns out that Jane, the girl Stadlater had left to go out with, meets Holden. From then on and throughout the night, Holden spends his time thinking about her until Ackley re-enters.

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Here Holden explains that Saturdays always give the same to eat, and went to dinner. After dinner he went with Ackley and Mal to eat hamburgers. Upon returning to high school, Ackley went to Holden's room, but this time Holden threw him out. Then, he began to write the composition of Stradlater and, as a theme, chose the baseball glove of his brother Allie.

Holden, remembering his brother, began to remember moments and what was really missed.

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In this chapter, when the fight came to an end, Holden (who had received more than caused), enters Ackley's room to sleep and talk. Ackley ignores him and Holden decides to sleep. Despite trying hard, Holden can not get Stadlater and Jane out of their heads, so he thinks about going back to New York that same night.
In the end I decided to sell the typewriter to get a little more money and leave that same night.

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Holden takes a train to New York and there is an attractive woman who is the mother of Ernest Morrow, according to Holden, her son is a fake child. With that woman he has a conversation in which Holden says a lot of lies. For example, when the woman asks for his name, he gives the name of the doorman Rudolph Schmidt, and that is not the only lie he says.

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In this chapter Stradlater returns from his date with Jane. When he arrives he reads the composition, which Holden had done to him and complains about the subject, because he says that it is not what he had asked, before such complaint Holden takes the composition and breaks it.

And then Holden starts smoking in front of Stradlater to annoy him, while Holden asks Stradlater about Jane, and he tells her they were in the coach of the basketball teacher. Then Holden gets angry because he thinks they have done something inside the car and while talking Holden throws himself on Stradlater, and he rolls over him and asks him to stop and shut up, but Holden ignores him and in the end Stradlater gives him a blow that leaves it on the floor all bloody and leaves. Holden finally gets up and puts on his hunting cap and looks in the mirror.

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In this chapter Holden, arrives in New York, he gets a room in the Edmont hotel, in that hotel according to him he was full of idiots and perverts, because people did very strange things.

Once there, he wants to talk to someone, but he does not want to be someone who can inform his parents about leaving school. So first he thinks about calling Jane, but in the end he ends up calling a stripper, who picks up the phone but does not want to stay with him because of his young voice.

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In the hallway he thinks about Jane again. He was known for Jane's dog, because it made his needs in Holden's garden and that bothered Holden's mother a lot.

He tells us that Jane is not very pretty, but she likes it a lot.

One afternoon, while playing the ladies, the stepfather asked if there was a cigarette in the house but she started crying. Holden to comfort her began kissing her face but never in her mouth.

Holden when he imagined Jane with Stradlater got up and went in a taxi to "Ernie".

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In this chapter Holden takes a taxi and is very anxious to talk to his sister Phoebe. In the taxi Holden tires the taxi driver with his questions about the fish and ducks in the winter.

In the place Holden sits alone in the same place where he was sitting with his brother, and suddenly a friend of his brother DB recognizes him, Lillian the friend of his brother introduces him to his appointment, and Holden considers him a very manly man. And to not stay with them because he considers them too exaggerated, he decided to lie to them saying that he was about to leave, and he leaves.

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In this chapter Holden thinks about calling his sister Phoebe, which in the end he does not do. He tells us a little about his family until I decided to go down for a drink. Holden asks the bartender for a whiskey with soda, but when he is younger they do not give it to him. Next, he looks at three unattractive women, and pulls at the least ugly. Later he dances with the other two as well, but as soon as they start talking, Holden realizes how silly they are and ends up giving him pain.
After that, Holden decides to leave them and go back to his room.

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In this chapter, while Holden is returning to the hotel, he thinks about the fight he would have had if he had the courage to fight with whoever had stolen his gloves. A part of that, while in the elevator, Maurice proposes to use the services of Sunny, a prostitute, and Holden accepts.

Later, just when she confesses that she is a virgin, they knock on the door. Sunny was the caller, and after a while she began to undress. Finally, Holden sees everything very precipitate and rejects his services, even so, Holden pays him the due despite the fact that she wants to cheat him.

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In this chapter Sunny leaves and Holden gets sad and talks to Allie. Holden wants to pray, but he does not do it because he is an atheist, the only biblical person that falls well is Jesus, the others seem false to him.

Then there was a knock at the door, it was Sunny and Maurice who came to collect their debt. Holden does not want to pay, Sunny takes the money and Holden begins to cry, at that moment Maurice hits him in the stomach. When they left, Holden imagined his revenge for the girls and also imagined Jane healing his wounds. In the end, he falls asleep.

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When he finishes his breakfast, he goes to buy a record for his sister Phoebe. After calling Jane, but her mother responds and Holden hangs up, Holden says that talking to the mothers of her friends is very boring.

He decides to go find his sister to give him the album. Once in the park they tell him that he is in the museum of the Indians, but when he arrives he leaves.

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In this chapter, Holden wakes up late one Sunday, again wanting to call Jane, but eventually calls Sally a former friend of the school, and the two make plans to go see a show later. Holden after talking with Sally takes a taxi and goes to the train station to store his luggage there, for when he has to go home.

When he finishes he goes to breakfast at a bar, and he sits near two nuns, and they make him feel guilty because he has had too much breakfast, and they only have coffee with toast. The three have a conversation and in the end Holden is the one who pays the breakfasts and gives them money.

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In this chapter, Holden finally asks for a taxi and headed to Baltimore. While she is waiting for Sally she looks at the legs of the girls that are there and what their future husbands will be like.
Later Sally arrives and they go to see the work. When finishing the work they are going to skid a while, but seeing that they did it so badly (and they fell so many times) Holden decides to go to take something.
Then Holden and Sally talk about fears for which they end up arguing and Holden tells Sally everything he thinks of her. Holden, realizing what he has done, regrets, but Sally decided to leave.
Finally, Holden decides to go to a bar and starts thinking about the war.

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Holden in this chapter, calls Jane and but no one responds, and feeling bored calls an old classmate from another school, Carl Luce who agreed to meet at 10 to be together.

Holden, meanwhile, goes to the Radio City Music Hall and watches the Rockettes and other acts. In one act he thinks that Jesus must be vomiting, for such stupidity they were doing for him. In the movies, he sees a war movie according to him bad and there he gets angry because a mother does not want to take his son to the bathroom and also gets excited about the movie. In the end he goes to the Wicker Bar to be with Carl Luce.

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In this chapter Holden manages to access his parents apartment, without anyone hearing him and secretly approaches his sister Phoebe who sleeps in the room of his older brother D.B. At first he thinks he is sleeping but when he lights his cigarette she wakes up. She jumps up and hugs him and tries to tell him everything at once.

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In this chapter they are in a bar. Holden begins the chapter describing the environment of the place. Then Luce arrives and they start talking about girls. Finally, when talking about knowledge of the principle of things, but not the end, they end up talking about psychoanalysis.

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In this chapter, Holden is drunk and calls Sally. Then he goes home to see his sister, he is very cold but he does not feel tired and he does not feel that he is drunk.

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In this chapter, after taking some cigarettes from his father, he returned to the room with Phoebe to continue talking. Phoebe, at that time was really angry about Holden's expulsion. Finally, Phoebe asks him what he wants to be when he grows up, and it is at this moment when the title makes sense, since Holden responds that as a child he wants to be the guardian among the rye, in order to prevent the children from getting lost. over a precipice

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In this chapter, because he left Mr. Antolini's house, he went to sleep on a bench.
In the morning Holden decides to go to a bar for breakfast. After breakfast he went to his sister's colleague to leave a note. Then he went to the museum (and helped two children find the mummies). After that he found himself again with Phoebe, who was determined to go with him. Finally Holden stares at her in the rain while she circled the merry-go-round.

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Here, Holden called Mr. Antolini, who was his former teacher, to ask him if he could go to sleep at his house. When he finished speaking, he found his sister dancing and started dancing with her. Then his parents arrive and Holden hid in the closet. When his parents left, his sister gave him money and left.

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Here ends the story told by Holden and says goodbye to the "hospital". He gives us good advice: "Never say anything to anyone, because once you do it you start to miss everyone".

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In this chapter, Holden takes a taxi and goes to Mr. Antolini's house, his teacher. With which he talks about why he suspended, although Holden evades the questions. They also talk about the future.

Mr. Antolini listens to Holden when he speaks but, when he speaks, Holden does not pay much attention because he keeps yawning, and they decide to finish speaking in the morning. When waking up Holden wakes up in Panic, by the acts of the teacher and for that reason it lies to him saying that it is necessary to go to collect his suitcases of the station. In the corridor, towards the exit of the house Mr. Antolini tells him that he can return, a fact that frightens, makes Trend and perspire Holden, he leaves in a hurry.