Chapter 10 phoebe

I was reading last night and phoebe at the beginning of chapter 10 really sticks out to me but I can't puty finger on it... Anyone else have thoughts? Just that both of Holden's siblings have red hair, and have their "roles" in the family seems significant to me. Then phoebe only writes about one character again and again. Also the relation of written word  between the children, phoebe writes stories, the brother who died(name is escaping me) wrote poems, and Holden seems proficient at English because his only subject he's not failing is English plus his story. I'm just struggling to pinpoint the significance but I feel there is one, anyone have ideas??

Chp. 4-9 Lines

I liked these lines in particular:

• "I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth" (59)
• "Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck" (68)
• "I just sort of sat and not did anything" (70)
• "Mothers are all slightly insane" (72)

Cole's Ch. 4-9 observations

I noticed (and apparently did the first time I read Catcher, based on my margin notes), how much Holden talks about "watching" Stradlater. He watches him shave, watches him undress and "stroke his bare chest." (41) More than once he talks about how handsome he is, or what a "good build" (26) he has.

Just saying.

-Cole

Lines

"All I need's an audience" (29)
"but he was a secret slob anyway" (27)
"Only very sexy stuff interested him" (32)
"What a school. You were always watching somebody cut their damn toenails or squeeze their pimples or something" (42)
"He was a fresh-air fiend" (49)
"That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a god-damn toilet seat" (55"
Mothers are all slightly insane" (55)
"I Keep making up these sex rules for myself, and I break them right away" (63)

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some of the lines that I liked were

"You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob inches personal habits? Well, so was Stradlater, but in a different way. Stradlater was more of a secret slob" (27).

"Stradlater was a very sexy bastard" (32).

"It made me too sad and lonesome" (51).

"One thing about packing depressed me a little" (51).

Some Lines

A few of the lines I liked were

(chapter 6, pg. 53) "'You always do everything backasswards.' He looked at me. 'No wonder you're flunking the hell out of here,' he said. 'You don't do one damn thing the way you're supposed to. I mean it. Not one damn thing.'"

(chapter 5, pg.47) "I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands. The snow was very good for packing. I didn't throw it at anything, though."

(chapter 7, pg.62) "I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead."

(chapter 7, 67) "I could see my mother going in Spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions––and here I was getting the ax again. It made me feel pretty sad. She bought me the wrong kind of skates––I wanted racing skates and she bought hockey––but it made me sad anyway. Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."

I also really like the section on Allie because he is a character that has always really interested me.

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Hi friends,

One of my favorite lines is found in chapter 6 (page 41 in the small book) when Holden is explaining the night that he and Stradlater got into a fight.  

The line is "I did it to annoy Stradlater.  It drove him crazy when you broke any rules.  He never smoked in the dorm.  It was only me."  

I really like this line because it reminds of what siblings do to each other.  Holden does this specifically just to irritate Stradlater and it reminds of me of the relationship that I have with my brother.  A lot of the dialogue in this book makes it very relatable to teenage life and just this comment in general really made it that more believable.