Journal Entery

Date: October 1, 2007

Entery Number: 16

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 103-104

Holden is excellent at provoking people to beat him up. At Pencey he kept calling Stradlater a stupid moron and calling him other things and telling him stuff that probably was pretty much true and he ended up on the floor, hurt and everything. Well Holden refused to pay the hooker the 10 bucks that he was suppose to give her because he already gave the 5 that the elevator guy told him was for a throw. Of course as you might remember, he didn't follow through with it. So the the pair of them came to get the money he supposedly owned them. The guy basically had him corned, slightly abusing him, and Sunny, the hooker, got the other five out of his wallet. Holden calls him a moron and basically says that in a couple of years he would be a begging hobo. That got the guy really mad so he smacked him and then punched him or maybe just punched him. It's not to clear on that. But the way Holden is always provoking people,you'd think he liked being punched or hurt. He actually pretends like he got shot and was bleeding all over the place and starts plotting his revenge in his imagination, which was totally action movie status. On page 45 afer fighting with Stradlater and seeing the blood all over his face and clothes he says' "All that blood and all sort of made me look tough." Holden is a very strange kid with a mind that is hard to follow.