麦田守望者 10-12章概括 英文

Summary: Chapter 10

Still feeling restless, Holden changes his shirt and goes downstairs to the

Lavender Room, the Edmont

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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

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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

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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

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s baseball glove. One day, Jane

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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

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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

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s, Holden listens to Ernie