#What is the catcher in the rye movie

Holden meets Carl Luce at the Wicker Bar. Holden thinks that if there is a war, he is glad that the atomic bomb has been invented, for he would volunteer to sit right on top of it. He hated the army, but had Holden read A Farewell to Arms, which in Holden's view celebrates soldiers.

#What is the catcher in the rye movie

The movie is a war film, which makes Holden think about D.B.'s experience in the war. He then goes to the movies and is annoyed when a woman beside him becomes too emotional. Holden calls Carl Luce, a friend from the Whooton School who goes to Columbia, and plans to meet him that night. Holden thinks that girls divide guys into two types, no matter what their personality: a girl will justify bad behavior as part of an inferiority complex for those she likes, while claim those that she doesn't like are conceited. Although Holden thought that he was 'all muscles and no brains,' Jane claimed that he had an inferiority complex and felt sorry for him. He remembers how she danced with Al Pike from Choate.

Holden once again considers giving Jane a call to invite her to go dancing. Holden feels somewhat guilty, and realizes that he doesn't even know where he got the idea about going to New England. He calls her a 'royal pain in the ass,' and she starts to cry. She tells him that they will have a lot of time to do those things after college and marriage, but he claims that there wouldn't be 'oodles' of places to go, for it would be entirely different. Sally tells him that the idea is foolish, for they are both practically children who would starve to death. They could get married and live in the woods. He suggests that they borrow a car from a friend in Greenwich Village and drive up to New England where they can stay in a cabin camp until their money runs out. He complains about the cliques at boarding schools, and tells her that he's in lousy shape. If not for her, he would be in the woods, he claims. He tells her that she is the only reason that he is in New York right now. He tells her that he hates everything: taxicabs, living in New York, phony guys who call the Lunts angels. Sally asks Holden if he is coming over to help her trim the Christmas tree. Holden and Sally go ice skating at Radio City, then to eat. Holden notes how phony the conversation between Sally and George is. After the play, when Sally keeps mentioning that she thinks she knows people she sees, Holden replies 'Why don't you go on over and give him a big soul kiss, if you know him? He'll enjoy it.' Finally, Sally does go to talk to the boy she knows, George from Andover. Holden meets Sally at the Biltmore, and when he sees her he immediately feels like marrying her, even though he doesn't particularly like her. Holden considers going to the museum to see Phoebe, but instead goes to the Biltmore for his date with Sally. He remembers how he would go there often with his class, but while the exhibits would be exactly the same, he would be different each time. He reminisces about going to the Museum when he was in grade school. They do, and claim that she is probably in the Museum of Natural History.

Holden goes to the Mall, where Phoebe usually plays when she is in the park, and sees a couple of kids playing there. He knew that Sally would enjoy it, for it was supposed to be very sophisticated.

Holden buys tickets for I Know My Love, a play starring the Lunts. As he walks through the city, he hears a poor kid playing with his parents, singing the song 'If a body catch a body coming through the rye.' Hearing the song makes Holden feel less depressed. Before meeting Sally Hayes, Holden goes to find a record called 'Little Shirley Beans' for Phoebe by Estelle Fletcher.