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Holden Caufield is the main character.
His broher, D.B, is a Hollywood writer.
Holden flunked too many subjects so he was expelled from school.
The book is about him telling us of vacation were before he was expelled.
In the 1st chapter he is in his way say goodbye to his teacher, Mr. Spencer.

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Holden talks with Mr. Spencer in his house.
Mr. Spencer tries to advise Holden to change his life for the better and Holden appreciates but has no intention to change. They part in good terms, however.

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Holden is reading in his room when Ackley, Holden's neighbour, barges in his room. Ackley is very irritating and wastes Holden time. Finally, when Strandler, Holden's roomate, enters the room, Ackley leaves because he hates Stradler.
Stradler says that he has a date tonight.

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Stralaterer tells Holden he has a date with Jane, and asks him if he can write an English composition for him while he is away.
Holden says that maybe he will, and then starts talking about Jane's habits some years ago. It turns out that Holden was in love with Jane.

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Holden, Ackley and a friend go to see a movie. Afterwards, they go eat a bite and play pinball.
Once he gets back, Holden talks for a while with Ackley and then he writes Stradlater's composition. However, instead of writing about a house as he was told, he writes about a baseball glove from his brother Allie.
Allie was a brother two years younger than Holden, who died from leuckemia in the past.

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Stradlater gets angry reading the composition. He smokes to annoy Holden and doesn't tell Holden about his date.
After a little fight, Holden has a nosebleed and decides to go talk with Ackley

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Holden talks some nonesense with Ackley before deciding that he will leave the school.
He packs his bag and runs away from the school, deciding that he will live some days in NY before going bak home when his parents have had time to digest his expulsion.

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The book ends here, this chapter I guess is just here to tell that he is still alive and that he continues on with his life.

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Holden goes back to the Hotel thiking hiow caward he is.
In the elevator, he is asked wheter he wants to buy a night with a Prostitute, Sunny, for 5 dollars and he accepts.
When Sunny enters his room, Holden says he just want to talk. Later, Sunny claims that he owe him 10 dollars, but he only pay her 5 and she leaves.

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Holden descrbies Phobe, his little sister he gets along well with.
Later he goes to the Lavander Room and try to order a coktail but is refused.
He talks for some time with three woman who end up making fun of him and decides to pay her drinks and leave.

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Holden wants to call someon but can't. He decides to take a taxi to Elmond Hotel. He talks about ducks with the driver. Later, he decides to call a girl called Faith Cavendish but at the end fails to arrange a date with her for tonight.

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Holden sleeps in the street.
The next morning he wanders around town, depressed, and decides he'll go all the way West 'till he finds a nice place to live when nobody knows him and get a job there.
Before leavinh, however, he wants to tell Phoboe. After meeting Phoboe and having a little fight, that got solved quickly afterwards, Phoboe convinces him to stay home and suddenly he feels happier than he had in the past two days.

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Holden thinks about his past with Jane and one time they kiseed each other.

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Holden goes to Mr. Antoni house and speaks with him for some time. They discuss whether digressions are good or not in debates. Then Mr Antoni gives him an educative speech. In the middle of the night, Holden wakes up and finds Mr Antoni patting his head, so he get scared of him and lie about having to go to the station in order to leave the house.

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In the train Holden finds his classmate Ernest's mother. They talk for a while, although Holden is lying all the time about how popular Ernest is. Later, Holden regrets not having tell Ernest's mother his real name, as he felt better after the conversation

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Holden calls Mr. Antoli, and English teacher from another school he used to go and he lets him come pass the night in his home. When he was about to leave, his parents come back, so he hides in Phobe's wardrobe until they leave the room. He tells his plans to Phoboe, borrows some money off her and leaves the house.

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Holden tells Phoboe why he got expelled and what he hates about school. She says that he hates everything and he responds that he like Allie. She gets angry saying that Allie's already dead.
Then she asks him what does he wanna do with his life and he claims that he'd want to stand at the edge of a cliff and catch the children when they come too close to falling off, that he would like to be THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. (Thus the title of the book).

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Holden gets home and sneaks into Phobe's room. She isn't there, so he goes to D.B's room. He found her sleeping there. He reads his notebook and then wakes her up to talk to her.
She's very happy, but after talking for some time, discovers that he'd been expelled from school and remarks that his father will kill him.

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Holden takes a taxi to the nightclub Ernie's. In the taxi, he talks about ducks again.
In the nightclub, he listens to the piano being played and some conversations around him,
Then, a girl called Lillian Simmons that likes his brother D.B comes and Holden leaves.

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Holden gets drunk and calls Sally. She gets angry and hungs up.
He goes to the park to see the ducks and thinks about how he missed Allie's funeral.
He decides to go home to speak with Phobe while his parents sleep.

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Holden meets with Luce and pesters him with questions about sex. Luce suggests that Holden ought to take a phsycoanalisis and then leaves, annoyed about the immaturity of Holde,

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Holden calls Carl, a boy he used to know, for some drinks that night.
To wait until the afternoon, he goes see a movie which he end up dislking.

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In the date with Sally, they go to a theater. Then they go ice sakting. When day take a break, they start to talk and Holden asks her to run away to the woods with him. After she disagrees, he insults her and she get angry and leaves in the middle of the date.

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Holden thinks about Phoebe, his 10 year old little sister and about how awesome she is.
Later he found a boy singing in the street, which cheered him up enough to decide to call Jane. When her mother picks up the phone, he hungs up.

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The first 14 chapters all happened in the same day. The 15th starts in the morning of the next day. Holden arranges a date with Sally for the afternoon.
He goes for a walk to kill time until the date and meets to nuns. After talking about Romeo and Juliet, he makes them accept 10 dollars and then leave.

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The guy from the elevator reurns with Sunny and claims that he owes them money. The guy hits holden, gets the money and leaves with Sunny.