Journal on the catcher in the rye

Chapter 1
In the first chapter the main character, Holden Caulfield, is introduced. Holden feels that it is not necessary to tell his whole life story, so he talks about his brother. His brother D. B. is a famous Hollywood writer. After he talks about his brother he begins his life story from the time he was at Pencey Prep, a school in Pennsylvania. Holden is kicked out of Pencey Prep because he failed four of his subjects. The only subject he passed was English. From reading half of the first chapter, Holden comes off to me as a very irresponsible teen. For example, at Pencey he is the manager of the school’s fencing team, on their trip to New York he loses the teams equipment. Another bad thing about Holden is that he is a very heavy smoker. At the end of this chapter he visits his history teacher Mr. Spencer, who he calls Old Spencer, to say good-bye.

Chapter 2
Old Spencer is trying to give Holden some advice. It seems to me that Holden and Old Spencer are clo...