"if a body meets a body"

In chapters 21&22 Holden talks with his little sister Phoebe.  While talking Phoebe asks Holden if he got  kicked out of Pencey.  He tries to get out of answering the question.  Eventually Phoebe asks him what he wants to do in life.  It takes him awhile but he says that he imagines a field full of children with a steep cliff on one side.  Holden says he's there to catch any kid that's not paying attention.  He almost saying that the cliff is the fall to growing up and being fake and phony and that he's trying to stop that from happening but it doesn't always work.

Expectations

I do things to impress my parents.
things I don’t want to do but make them happy.
If I can make my parents happy my life becomes easier.
I do what they tell me as soon as its said.
while my brother says NO and my parents resist to smack his head.

My parents tell me Take out the trash.
I do it while inside Im burned to ash.
I don’t want to do it, but what I said before.
it doesn’t make my parents sore.

Do your homework, and do it tonight.
because if you don’t it will come back to bite.
your grades are important to get a good job.
pick up your room your such a slob.

I want to do good I want to succeed.
I want to more than one good deed.
sports are fun I truly can say.
soccer, football and baseball is what I play.

Holden

For this blog I chose the part in chapter seventeen when Holden calls Sally a "royal pain in the ass."  I think Holden says this because he liked Sally but he realized she was very fake and phony.  I don't think he wanted to call Sally that, but his thoughts just came out.  I think that since he likes her for her looks that he didn't want to hurt her feelings, but it sort of slipped.  To me Holden likes Sally for who she is on the outside.  I think that if it weren't for her good looks Holden wouldn't bother.  Because Holden doesn't like people who are fake and phoney Sally's probably not the girl for him.