Holden had quite a lot of money, while his parents were so rich, so it was no problem for him to pay for food, transport or stay in hotels. During his journey he met up with some old friends, his former girlfriend and so on, but he also met some new folks.
He didn’t want to come home until his parents didn’t get the message about Holden’s elimination from school. That is why he was overnighting in hotels. He knew that his parents would be angry, when they found out that their son was kicked out of Pencey School.
After some wandering in the streets of New York he made a decision to secretly visit his younger sister Phoebe, because he liked her very much. He was sure to escape from New York and from all his family and live alone in the wilds, forests or somewhere like it. Only Phoebe persuaded him to stay at home and once more try to attend school.

Holden Caulfield
- Main protagonist, 16 years old boy. He is quite addicted, smokes a lot and drinks alcohol more than is proper. - He is from time to time rude and cheeky, but in most cases he behaves politely. - He is talkative nature, but his vocabulary isn’t as excellent as it should be. His favourite words for example are “a tak”, “bohatstvo” and many others. He uses these words in his narration as often as possible.
- Doesn’t like almost everybody. He has no respect for nearly anything, hates his school, teachers, schoolmates, successful people and everything commercial. Sometimes it seems that he hates the entire world. The exceptions are just few special people who he acknowledges, like one professor from school, some members of family.

„Bohatstvo, ako ja školu nenávidím! A nielen školu. Všetko. Nenávidím život v New Yorku a vôbec. Nenávidím taxíky a autobusy na Madison Avenue so šoférmi, čo večne na teba revú, že sa vystupuje vzadu, nenávidím výťahy, v ktorých sa musím voziť, ak chcem ísť von, predavačov u Brooksa, čo ti donekonečna skúšajú nohavice, nenávidím...“

- He has slight inclination to paedophile- does like children. But it isn’t as bad as it might impress. He thinks that children are good, not perverted by present society, or something like it. As a purpose of his life he sees protection of small children from the world. The most of all kids he loves his younger sister Phoebe. Identically he likes his brother Allie, who was presently few years after death. - Often underrates himself. He is sure that he is fool; therefore he can’t achieve good results at school. - Don’t know what he wants.