Journal 7
Chapters 11-12
By: Kellen Long
On Holden’s way out of the lobby
that evening he suddenly focused his attention back on Jane Gallagher. If you
don’t remember her, she was the girl that Stradlater had taken on a date when
school was still in session. Holden then starts telling the story of how he met
Jane and his connection with her. Her Doberman pinscher used to come relieve
himself on their lawn and Holden’s mom would become very irritated about it and
would call Jane’s mom and would always make a big deal about it. A few days after the incident Holden sees Jane lying next
to the pool at the club house, he begins a conversation with her, and this
leads to their friendship. Holden described her as “a funny girl. I wouldn’t
exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out though. She was
sort of muckie-mouthed.” (Ch.11, pg.100) Holden then goes on to describe an
afternoon that they had at the movies one time. All they did was hold hands the whole entire
movie, but Holden said she was the best hand holder that he had ever seen. The
thought of her and Strandlater in the back of Ed Banky’s car disgusted him and
he knew it could not be true.
In chapter twelve Holden catches a
cab ride downtown to another bar. On the way to the bar he asks the cab driver
an interesting question. “Do you happen to know where the ducks go during the
winter time?”(Ch. 12, pg.107) The cab driver was quite irritated by the
question and responded “the fish don’t go no place, they say right where they
are.” (Ch.12, pg.107) Then Holden said, but that’s different. Horwitz, the cab
driver said “Listen, if you were a fish, Mother Nature would take care of you,
wouldn’t she?” (Ch.12, pg.109) and he drove off. Holden then walked into
Ernie’s, had a few scotch and sodas and then called it a night.
No comments:
Post a Comment