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Summary: Chapter 10
Still
feeling restless, Holden changes his shirt and
goes downstairs to the
Lavender Room,
the Edmont
’
s nightclub.
Before he leaves his room, he thinks
again about calling his little sister,
Phoebe. Referring to her as
“
old
Phoebe,
”
he
gives
a description of her character that is remarkably
similar to the description he
gave of
Allie in Chapter 5. Like Allie, she has red hair
and is unusually intelligent
for her
age. He recalls the time he and Phoebe went to see
Hitchcock
’
s The Steps
(despite his professed loathing for the
cinema, he has clearly seen many movies
and has strong opinions about them). He
notes Phoebe
’
s humor and
cleverness,
and mentions that she
writes never-ending fictional stories that feature
a character
named
“
Hazle
”
Weatherfield.
According to Holden,
Phoebe
’
s one flaw is that
she
is perhaps too emotional.
In the Lavender Room, Holden takes a
table and tries to order a cocktail. He
explains that due to his height and his
gray hair, he is often able to order alcohol,
but, in this case, the waiter refuses.
He flirts and dances with three women who
are visiting from Seattle. They seem
amused but uninterested in this obviously
young man who tries to appear older and
debonair. After tolerating him for a while,
they begin to laugh at him; they also
depress him by being obsessed with movie
stars. When Holden lies to one of them
about having just seen Gary Cooper, she
tells the other two that she caught a
glimpse of Gary Cooper as well. Holden pays
for their drinks, then leaves the
Lavender Room.
Summary: Chapter 11
As he walks out to the lobby, Holden
reminisces about Jane. Their
families
’
summer
homes in Maine were next door to one another, and
he met her after his
mother confronted
her mother about a Doberman pinscher that
frequently relieved
itself on the
Caulfields
’
lawn. Holden and
Jane became close
—
Jane was
the only
person to whom Holden ever
showed Allie
’
s baseball
glove. One day, Jane
’
s
alcoholic stepfather came out to the
porch where Holden and Jane were playing
checkers and asked Jane for cigarettes;
Jane refused to answer him, and, when
he left, she began to cry. Holden held
her, kissing her face and comforting her.
Apart from that incident, their
physical relationship was mild, but they used to
hold
hands constantly. When you held
Jane
’
s hand, Holden
reminisces,
“
all you knew
was, you were happy. You really
were.
”
Holden then feels
suddenly upset, and he
returns to his
room. He notices that the lights in the
“
perverts
’”
rooms are out. He
is still wide awake,
so he heads downstairs and grabs a taxi.
Summary: Chapter 12
Holden
takes a cab to a Greenwich Village nightclub
called Ernie
’
s, a spot he
used to frequent with D. B. His cab
driver is named Horwitz, and Holden takes a
liking to him. But when Holden tries to
ask him about the ducks in the Central Park
lagoon, Horwitz unexpectedly becomes
angry. At Ernie
’
s, Holden
listens to Ernie
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