Journal Entery

Date: October 3, 2007

Entery Number: 20

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 130-134

Holden shouldn't have attacked Sally with all his questions, complaints, and ideas in one setting. Holden has way to many complaints and strange ideas that someone might even be repulsed by him because of all his complaints and theories. And to tell a girl who is a phony, which is one of his complainsts, isn't smart. He really got out of control and I can believe it when Sally says, "Don't shout, please." Holden didn't think he was yelling but he probably was or talking really loud. When you get excited about stuff the way he was, you tend to talk faster and louder. It's crazy though when he comes up with his plan fpr him and Sally to get out of New York and move into a cabin together some place far away and maybe even get married. If some guy ever asked me to go away with him and live with him and be his little wife in that manner, I would probably flip out even if it was a guy I really liked. That's just crazy. You don't attack a girl with all your complaints and then ask her to marry you. It just doesn't work that way. Holden later says, "...I don't even know why I started all that stuff with her...I probably wouldn't've taken her even if she'd wanted to go with me." But it is interesting how Holden says that they wouldn't have oodles of places to go once they go older and it wouldn't be the same. She was trying to be sensible but Holden was being difficult. The way Holden says it, it really demonstrates how it would be different when doing stuff when you are older, out of college, and being an adult verses being a kid and "eloping" somewhere totally different. It really wouldn't be the same.