Even though it was only around twelve o’clock, Broadway was still mobbed with people. Holden went to a record store to buy a record for Phoebe called “Little Shirley Beans”. He then took a cab up to the park. Holden explains the park as very lousy by saying, “It wasn’t too cold, but the sun still wasn’t out, and there didn’t look like there was anything in the park except dog crap and globs of spi and cigar butts from old men, and the benches all looked like they’d be wet if you sat down on them.” He decides walk to the mall and look for Phoebe, since the place she skates at is very close by. He had no luck, so he went to the Museum of Natural History. He recalls old memories of the museum, “You’d pass by this big glass case, with Indians
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Boy, that museum was full of glass cases… The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move” (Salinger 121). Holden likes this about the museum because he doesn’t fancy change, and the museum never changes. In the previous chapters, Holden made a date with Sally. He got tickets for Sally and him to see I Know My Love with the Lunts. The show wasn’t the worst show he’s ever seen. After, he went skating with Sally at Radio City. He took Sally home shortly after skating, and met old Car Luce for a drink at Wicker Bar on 54th. The Wicker Bar is in a swanky hotel called the Seton Hotel. It was supposed to be very sophisticated, “They used to have these two French babes, Tina and Janine, come out and play the piano and sing about three times every night” (Salinger 142). The bar was pretty crowded, and there were phonies everywhere. After his talk with Luce, semi-drunk Holden walks around New York deciding what to do. He tried to find Central Park, which he knowns like the back of his hand, but he’s drunker than he originally thought he was so he’s having a difficult time locating it. He sat down on a bench, gathered his thoughts, and makes the final decision to go to his house to see
Boy, that museum was full of glass cases… The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move” (Salinger 121). Holden likes this about the museum because he doesn’t fancy change, and the museum never changes. In the previous chapters, Holden made a date with Sally. He got tickets for Sally and him to see I Know My Love with the Lunts. The show wasn’t the worst show he’s ever seen. After, he went skating with Sally at Radio City. He took Sally home shortly after skating, and met old Car Luce for a drink at Wicker Bar on 54th. The Wicker Bar is in a swanky hotel called the Seton Hotel. It was supposed to be very sophisticated, “They used to have these two French babes, Tina and Janine, come out and play the piano and sing about three times every night” (Salinger 142). The bar was pretty crowded, and there were phonies everywhere. After his talk with Luce, semi-drunk Holden walks around New York deciding what to do. He tried to find Central Park, which he knowns like the back of his hand, but he’s drunker than he originally thought he was so he’s having a difficult time locating it. He sat down on a bench, gathered his thoughts, and makes the final decision to go to his house to see