Catcher Chapters 13-19

I was so excited at the beginning of these chapters when he put his hunting cap on! I decided that it would be a good chapter. Unfortunately, the whole seven chapters (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19) ended up making me sad and more annoyed. It started okay, I liked the whole thing with the gloves at the beginning, and the ice skating with Sally, and looking for Phoebe/talking about the museum. I thought it was sort of cool how he described the museum, every person behind the glass, and how they went all the time. At least it wasn't a very depressing topic. Although it was a little weird when he asks the little girl if she knows Phoebe Caulfield. The girl first is confused, and she asks "Who?" and then he just says "Phoebe Caulfield" and explains she's in fourth grade, and she automatically knows exactly who. How does that work? If someone asked who someone was, then I would say 'yes' or 'no', not something like, 'maybe'. It was like repeating it a second time would clear any confusion. And then she wasn't very helpful, anyway. But I still liked it better than him wandering around and being so pitiful.

Unfortunately, I found the rest of it really depressing, probably because he kept saying he was depressed. Sunny was also sort of depressing, with the whole 'You owe me ten dollars not five' thing, and then Maurice getting all mad. He has that 'big, fat, hairy, crumby, stomach' and then they just take the money out of his wallet. I hope he doesn't go back there. He can go back to Pencey, but not there.

I also liked the nuns, which I sort of forgot about, but he seemed happier talking to them, and like I said, any time he wasn't talking about how depressed he was, I was happy. Then he had that whole talk about Catholics, which I thought was sort of funny.

Personally, I think that everything after the skating with Sally is uninteresting and fairly depressing as a whole. I'm serious, it reminds you how strange Holden is, and it isn't very comforting for me to think he might be sort of crazy. When he's talking to Sally, she keeps saying things like "Stop yelling!" which make you think he is sort of crazy, because he doesn't think he's yelling. I think it's sort of weird that he calls up random people that he knows from something or other and says, "Hey, let's hang out!" when the people hardly even know him. I found that I really was just feeling really sick of the story by the end of these chapters. Even with all that other stuff that I really liked, it just had this overall depressing feeling. Someone please tell me it gets somewhat better, whether Holden is crazy or not.