Catcher In The Rye Chapter 20

Summary: Holden stays at the bar and gets very drunk. He go outside to a phone booth and calls up Sally. It is very late and her grandmother answers. He asks to speak to Sally, but her grandmother says she is asleep. Holden says that it is important so she gets her. Sally asks what he is doing calling so late. She know right away that he is drunk. He asks her if he can trim her tree on Christmas for her. She says he can and he asks her the same question two more times. Then she tells him to go to bed and hangs up. Holden went back into the bar and tries to sober up by dunking his head in the sink. As he leaves the bar he tries to make a date with the coat check girl and she tells him to get some sleep. He then walks to Central Park to see if the ducks are on the lagoon. While he is walking there he drops the record he bought for Phoebe. It shatters and he picks up the pieces and keeps them. He walks around the pond but doesn't find and ducks. He almost falls in once. He then sits on a bench and realizes he is freezing and his hair has frozen. He thinks he is getting pneumonia and will die. He even imagines his funeral. He says that he didn't go to Allie's funeral because he was in the hospital. He decides to sneak home and talk to Phoebe.

Response: Getting drunk was a very bad hing to do. I think he did it just so he wouldn't feel so bad. If he wasn't so drunk i don't think he would have gone to see the ducks. It is very bad that he starts to think about dying and his funeral. He needs to get some help before he hurts himself. I think it would be good if his parents caught him when he goes home.