January 22, 2013
4-4:30
The Catcher in the Rye
Pages: 114-134

It's noon and he didn't have to meet Sally until 2 so he went for a walk. He was thinking about the nuns and charity and how people he knew would act if they were trying to be charitable. Then he started thinking about a record that his sister would like that he heard a guy talking about at Pencey. Still walking, he saw these people come out of church and their kid was walking and singing in the street. This made Holden not so depressed anymore. He tried to call Jane but her mom answered and he didn't feel like talking to her mom. He bought the record for his sister and started thinking how his brother D.B. took him and his sister to see a movie. He buys tickets to a play for Sally. He sees a little girl and asks if she knows his sister. The kid says no but was polite about it. Holden starts thinking about his younger days when he used to go to the museum all the time with his class and it makes him happy. He wishes that some things would be like the museum and be put in a glass case and never change. Holden waits for Sally even though he wants to go home and she comes and he thinks she looks really good and wants to marry her just like that. He thinks he is crazy because he starts telling Sally that he loves her and stuff while on the way to the play. Holden doesn't like the play too much but after Sally sees someone she knows and they start a conversation. Sally wants to go ice skating so she and Holden go but they're not so good.they decide to sit and get something to eat and drink and Holden attempts to have an intelligent conversation with her. She interrupts him a lot and puts holes in his dreams which depresses him and he says something not so nice to her and she gets upset and leaves. Holden feels bad and tries to apologize but she's too upset and the two go their separate ways.

The most interesting idea in what I've read is this one about the museum. Holden says "The best thing , though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. ... Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that exactly. You'd just be different that's all." This really interested me because its a deep intellectual thought. And it's true.

My reading consistant because I again read another 2 chapters.