The story covers the three-days in the life of Holden Caulfield; specifically the ones he feels had to do, led to and explain his psychological condition. It begins that he has just failed his way out of Pencey, and he must go home to face his parents. But before he leaves Pencey, Ackley, the “phony” and “pimply” boy who occupies the next room, comes over to bother him. Stradlater, Holden’s roommate, then comes into the scene as well to “freshen up for a date.” Although Stradlater is handsome he is a secret mess and Holden abnormally thinks he is a “phony.” When he does leave Pencey he checks into the Edmont Hotel in New York City where he accepts the offer from an elevator operator to have intercourse with a girl. When the girl, Sunny, arrives
