After Reading only one page of this book I could tell that I was going to like it much more than Love in the Time of Cholera because it was much less confusing. Throughout this section of the book I noticed that Holden, the main character, often made sudden snap decisions to do something that he wanted. While at the hotel in New York, Holden spontaneously calls a girl named Faith in to set up a date with her, but then after she says that she couldn’t that night he decides that he doesn’t want to have a date with her. I think that this spontaneous decision making is one of the attitudes that got Holden expelled from Pencey.
Holden also seams to think too much about other people during conversations instead of focusing on the conversation itself. He is basically being extremely judgmental while others are trying to have a conversation. For example when Holden went to visit his teacher, Mr. Spencer, he was focusing on the fact that the room smelled and that the bed was as hard as rock. He even focused on Mr. Spencer’s head nodding rather than the important life lecture that he was being given. I think that this attitude also contributed to the fact that Holden got expelled from Pencey. I believe this because Holden was probably not focusing on the teachers’ lectures and that caused him to fail most of his classes.
Sasha, I think that Holden is calling everyone a phony because he is most of the time correct. I think that a principle who talks to nice looking parents, but not to odd looking parents is a “phony.” Although most of the people he calls phony probably are phony, I agree with you when you say that he is being Hippocratic because he lies and acts “phony” around others too.
No comments:
Post a Comment