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Holden gets on a train to go to New York. Holden meets an old woman who happens to be the mother of one of his classmates. He lies about him being popular to her and says that he could have been class president. The lady asks why hes getting off the train and he tells her that he has a brain tumor operation in New York.

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Holden debates throwing his snowball at a car or fire hydrant but eventually decides against it because he wants to preserve their perfection. Holden moves on to thinking about Allie and how frustrated he is at his death. Eventually, he decides to write his roommate's composition on Allie's old baseball glove.

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We get to see where Holden lived in college and we get to meet his roomates, Ackley and Stradlater. We also learn that Stradlater has a date with someone.

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Holden keeps thinking about Jane and reminisces about their summer together. He talks about her way of playing checkers and her fondness for sports. he goes on about her mannerisms like the way she talks or holds hands. he then recalls when, in his opinion, they almost got together; they were playing checkers when her stepdad came home and started yelling at her. She then started sobbing and he kissed her all over her face but when he came close to her mouth she pushed him away. then he gets mad about the Stradladder and Jane situation and leaves to go to Ernie, a nightclub his brother took him to.

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As Holden struggles to sleep, he debates whether to call his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He ends up leaving to go the the Lavender room instead, which is the night club in the hotel. There he meets three girls who only talk to him to get free drinks. Even though the girls are clearly self-centered, he finds entertainment in their company by pranking them and dancing with each one. The group shortly left the night club as it was closing up.

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Holden reaches New York and is feeling very lonely so he thinks of people to call, but ends up not calling anybody. He sparked up a conversation with his taxi driver and found that he was very good company, making him feel less lonely and depressed. He is traveling incognito, but the place he's staying at makes him uncomfortable with all the "perverts and morons" there. At the end of the chapter, he calls Faith Cavendish in hopes of getting a cocktail.

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Mrs. Morrow- the mother of one of Holden's classmates. He lies to her about how he thinks about her son. He relies on his lying to better connect with her.

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Allie

Robert Ackley

Ward Stradlatter

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Old Spencer

Ward Stradlater

D.B.

Robert Ackley

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Stradlater

Allie (he talks about how he showed Jane Allie's glove and told her the story)

Jane's stepfather

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D.B.

Ernie ("big fat colored guy that plays the piano. He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano. He's so good it's almost corny..." 90)

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-Phoebe

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-Laverne

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Mac

Faith Cavendish

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"I held hands with her all the time, for instance. That doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with"(89). When Holden talks about Jane in this chapter it shows how he is very lonely and seems to struggling with that mentally. He had a very strong relationship with her and it seems that he had never had another one.

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"She was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it" (87). Death is represented because Holden opened up to someone about his brother, who died. He shows her a big symbol of who he was before his death.

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"I mean she was quite young and all, and most girls if you see them putting their hand on the back of somebody's neck, they're around twenty-five or thirty and usually they're doing it to their husband or their little kid... But if a girl's quite young and all and she does it, it's so pretty it just about kills you" (89).

When talking about Jane putting her hand behind his neck, he mentions how it's different when she does it because she is young and pure. If she were older and less innocent, what she did would be viewed differently, showing that her youngness and innocence is what pulls him into her.

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"I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole life story." (55)

This shows that he chooses exactly what he wants to when he wants to and does not want to conform to politeness necessarily.

"Just to stop lying. Once I get started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it." (58)

This shows that he rebels by becoming a pathological liar and lying whenever he chooses.

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"Im the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. Its awful" (19).

He supposedly follows the rules, but he just lies to cover up.

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"It’s really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes." (70)

In chapter 9, Holden deals with lots of sexual fantasies and wants to get intimate with a girl but at the same time he is innocent in a way that he sex as dirty and feels guilty about idea of sex when analyzed. Even thought he refers to himself as the "biggest sex maniac" he doesn't want to grow up and instead he fights for his innocence.

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"The first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth... I ended up not calling anybody."(59)

This quote shows his mental health not being in a great state as he has this feeling of loneliness and depression and wants to talk to somebody but doesn't have anyone to call.

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"I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors" (19).

Holden was stuck isolated in the dorms with only kids his age and he was barely able to go out and live life.

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"While I was changing my shirt, I damn near gave my kid sister Phoebe a buzz, though. I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone. Somebody with sense and all (75).

Holden feels very isolated because he has been by himself since he left his school. He wants to talk to somebody so he contemplates calling his little sister.

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"I started toying with the idea, while I kept standing there, of giving old Jane a buzz" (71). Holden considers giving a phone call to his old neighbor, showing his severe isolation from contact and his desire to call someone he knows.

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"In the first place, it was one of those places that are very terrible to be in unless you have somebody good to dance with, or unless the waiter lets you buy real drinks instead of just Cokes." Throughout the chapter, Holden seeks an escape from his loneliness. At first he contemplates calling someone, but decides against it. Then, he goes down to the lavender room to drink and seek company. Through talking to the girls and attempting to order alcohol, Holden is trying to district himself from his current life situation.

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"Old Allies Baseball mitt ...All I had to do was change the name so that no one knew it was my brother" (44). Holden is writing Stradlaters composition about his deceased brother's baseball mitt.

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"I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands. The snow was very good for packing. I didn't throw it at anything, though. I started to throw it. At a car that was parked across the street. But I changed my mind." (44) This shows that Holden is starting to change he's becoming more considerate and is able to hold back the tendency to mess with people.

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"I told her I was going to South America with my grandmother. which was a really hot one" (66). in this chapter Holden spent most of it lying to Mrs. Morrow, and him calling one of his lies a "hot one" shows that he is thinking about this more like a game and not out of necessity. Its also important to understand that this is right after holden left Pencey and Lying and creating going by a different can serve as a way for him to distance himself from his depressing life.

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"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy

a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the

opera. It's terrible. So when I told old Spencer I had to go to the gym and get my equipment and

stuff, that was a sheer lie. I don't even keep my goddam equipment in the gym." (19).

This shows Holden acknowledges his lying, and even he realizes that it's a bad habit of his.

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"I ordered a Scotch and soda, and told him not to mix it- I said it fast as hell, because if you hem and haw, they think you're under twenty-one and won't sell you any intoxicating liquor. I had trouble with him anyway, though (78).

This is one example of the many lies Holden tells. He lies to buy liquor underage while he is in the Lavender Room, but the waiter refuses to serve him because he doesn't have an ID.

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"But you cant always tell with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are always slightly insane. The thing is, though, I liked old Morrow's mother. She was alright" (62). Almost every encounter Holden has with anybody until this point has been negative, however he shows a soft spot for the innocence and realness of Morrow's mother. Even though her son is labeled a "phony" to Holden, he still appreciates her personality and makes it seem like her son is successful and modest at Pency Prep.

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"I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it" (44).

This shows how Allie's death truly affected Holden, and proves how depressed and lonely he felt afterwards.