Chapter 20

Holden gets very drunk after Luce leave, he calls sally and makes her and her Grandmother very angry. he tries to make a date with 2 other women, a hat check girl and a bar singer? he fails at both. He decides to walk to the duck pond in Central Park to see if the ducks are still around. Along the way, he becomes quite upset when he drops and breaks the record he had bought for Phoebe. Because he had splashed water in his hair at the hotel in an attempt to sober up, his hair begins to freeze and fill with icicles. At the duck pond, he worries about catching pneumonia and imagines his funeral. He missed Allie's funeral, he says, because he was in the hospital after breaking the garage windows with his bare hands. He remembers going to Allie's grave with his parents. He becomes disgusted and sad, because the idea of placing flowers on the grass that covers the stomachs of the dead disturbs him. he really wants to talk to phoebe so but he knows he is running low on money, so he finally goes home, figuring that his parents will be asleep.

Response- Holden really really just needs help, these chapters are just full of him, its really good that he is going home, even though he is scared about what his parents will do, i really think that it will be best.