Getting Things Straight Questions.

Getting Things Straight Questions.
Chapter 5
1. Who is Allie, and why is his baseball mitt so special to Holden?
Allie is Holden’s brother who died of leukemia. He was important to Holden because he used t write poems in his baseball glove.

2. Why did Holden’s parents want to have him psychoanalyzed?
Because when Allie died he was so angry and sad that he broke al the windows of the garage.

Chapter 6
1. What does Stradlater criticize Holden for?
Because he always do everything backwards and because he doesn’t do anything as he should do it.

2. Why id Holden so concerned about what happened with Jane Gallagher and Stradlater? What does this possibly reveal about Holden?
Because they were friends and neighbors in their childhood. This could possibly reveal that Holden is attracted to either Jane or Stradlater.

3. What do Holden and Stradlater fight over?
Because Stradlater ask Holden to make a composition about a room, but he did it very bad and because of this Stradlater got angry, also because Stradlater didn’t told Holden about his date with Jane Gallagher.

4. What dos Holden out on after the fight? Have we seen him put this on before?
He puts on his hunting hat, we haven’t seen him put on his hunting hat before.

Chapter 7
1. Holden decides to go visit Ackley. How is he received by Ackley?
He received Holden with anger because Holden woke up Ackley

2. He is thinking about Jane Gallagher.
3. Because he doesn’t like anything there and the atmosphere isn’t good to him.
4. He goes to a very expensive hotel in New York and then he goes to his home.
5. He yelled “ Sleep tight, ya morons”
6. Because he was a very sad to say goodbye to his friends and to his old life.

Chapter 8
1. He thinks that Mrs. Morrow is a good looking women and that she was around 40 or 45.
2. He tells her that his name is Rudolf Schmidt, that he likes Pencey and that her son adapts very good to things. Also he tells Mrs. Morrow that his nose is bleeding because someone hit him with a snowball, instead of what really happened that instead he was in a fight.
3. Because Holden likes Mrs. Morrow so he tries to impress her, so she will like Holden, and so she thinks that Holden is a nice guy.
4. He’s desperate for company, but specially for money, but he’s not desperate right now, in the future he will be.

Chapter 9
1. Yes, because he doesn’t care where he goes, he goes where the wind takes him. Also he doesn’t care about anyone or anything, he doesn’t have any goals or aspirations.
2. “You know those ducks in that lagoon right near central park south? That little lake? Buy any chance; do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know by any chance?” No he haven’t concerned with this before.
3. He was depress, so we know that Holden it’s the kind of guy that like to criticizes everyone and everything.
4. She’s an escort and Holden wants to meet her for a cocktail.
5. Yes, he’s phony because he fakes a lot.