Journal Entery

Date: September 24, 2007

Entery Number: 4

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 24-25

When discribing how nice Stradlater could be to Ackley, Holden says, "Stradlater's all right. He's not too bad...You don't know him, that's the trouble...He's concited, but he's very generous in some things." He goes on to say that if Stradlater was wearing a tie you really like he would probably give it to you. The thing is though most conceited men are not very nice like Holden is making him out to be. Most of the time conceited people are to high up on their high horses to even bother to look down at others who are not well groomed or very wealthy. Later on a little more of Stradlater is shown when he tries to worm his way out of doing his english homework and ponning it off on Holden who is getting kicked out of Pencey Prep because he is failing almost every class. He asks nice enough but once Holden doesn't give him a straight answer he gets a little mad because he needed to know if he would have to pon it off on someone else. Sometimes he really shows his conceitedness and you can see how he can be kind of mean. The English homework example is not the best to show how he could be mean but it does show how fake he is and how lazy he could be. From reading the book you don't get very good vibes off of the character that Stradlater is.