... New York City for a few days. With a decent stash of money and a desperate desire to repress his depression, Holden roams around the city, meets up with old friends, strikes up conversations with new ones, drinks and smokes profusely, and hardly sleeps. At one point, he calls a prostitute up to his hotel room, but only wants to talk to her. The lost teenage boy ... night he died, and [he] broke all the goddam windows with [his] fist, just for the hell of it" (39). The death of Allie caused Holden to become very volatile because he didn't know how else to express his grief. From then on,...

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