The narrator accuses his brother of prostituting himself by writing screenplays in Hollywood and is irritated by the hygienic habits of Ackley and Stradlater, two of his classmates at Pencey Prep, which he flees to waste his savings in New York before returning home for Christmas break.
One character in this work relates how he was unable to kiss the lips of a girl who cries onto a checkerboard, and that protagonist is hustled out of five dollars by an elevator boy. The narrator accuses his brother of prostituting himself by writing screenplays in Hollywood and is irritated by the hygienic habits of Ackley and Stradlater, two of his classmates at Pencey Prep, which he flees to waste his savings in New York before returning home for Christmas break. Narrated by the brother of Allie, D.B., and Phoebe, For 10 points, name this novel about Holden Caulfield written by J.D. Salinger.
One character in this work relates how he was unable to kiss the lips of a girl who cries onto a checkerboard, and that protagonist is hustled out of five dollars by an elevator boy.
The {Catcher in the Rye}