... he is away for the weekend. Ackley is not too comfortable with it but Holden reassures him that he will leave after a while. Holden cannot stop thinking of Jane and Stradlater. He tries to wake Ackley, who has fallen asleep, up, but that just irritates him and so Holden leaves the room. While sitting in the ... figure out who he would like to call since his brother D.B. is in Hollywood; his little sister Phoebe is probably asleep; he doesn't really feel like calling Jane Gallagher and another girl he considers calling, Sally Hayes, he decides it would be best not to since her mother alre...

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• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

... into his habitual use of swearing (Costello, 1990). "Sonuvabitch" is reserved for his extreme anger, as when he kept calling Stradlater a "moron sonuvabitch" for the boy's ostensibly offensive treatment of Jane Gallagher. Again, Holden's sporadic use of "sonuvabitch" in his angriest moments alerts the reader to the serious quality of his anger. Salinger carefully crafted such speech patterns to help us ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School