Holden really wouldn’t go away with Sally because he only likes her for her looks. Sally is not the kind of girl Holden would want to take. His ideal girl to go to Vermont would be Jane because he truly loves how Jane plays the game strategically and she is a very natural person. As Holden says he “probably wouldn’t’ve taken her even if she’d wanted to go with [him]. She wouldn’t have been anybody to go with” (174). Holden also says that she is a “royal pain in the ass” (173). Plus afterward he does not really mean anything that he tells her but at the moment he just spits it out because he is so excited. Both of them say that they love each other but they really do not mean it because if she does love him, she would have wanted to go with
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To make matters worse he is already depressed before the date. In Holden’s perspective, Sally is a phony because she is very depressed and very fake to Holden. Reasons being that she talks with another guy while on their date. In the scene where Holden tells Sally that he loves her, Sally says “I love you too. Then right in the same damn breathe” she says “promise me you’ll let your hair grow out” (163). She does not really see how Holden feels. She wants Holden to do things for her own liking implying she is more self-centered. His behaviors during the date show that he is still being childish and immature. He acts very childishly because, in the scene where Sally sees George, Holden tells Sally that “why don’t you go on over and give him a big soul kills” (165). It’s like Holden is mocking Sally and he is more of a child because that is his date but he tells her to basically cheat on him. At the same time, he is trying to act like an adult by wanting to travel and go out of New York. His behavior can also imply that he does not want to be alone. That is mostly why he goes on a date with
To make matters worse he is already depressed before the date. In Holden’s perspective, Sally is a phony because she is very depressed and very fake to Holden. Reasons being that she talks with another guy while on their date. In the scene where Holden tells Sally that he loves her, Sally says “I love you too. Then right in the same damn breathe” she says “promise me you’ll let your hair grow out” (163). She does not really see how Holden feels. She wants Holden to do things for her own liking implying she is more self-centered. His behaviors during the date show that he is still being childish and immature. He acts very childishly because, in the scene where Sally sees George, Holden tells Sally that “why don’t you go on over and give him a big soul kills” (165). It’s like Holden is mocking Sally and he is more of a child because that is his date but he tells her to basically cheat on him. At the same time, he is trying to act like an adult by wanting to travel and go out of New York. His behavior can also imply that he does not want to be alone. That is mostly why he goes on a date with