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chapter 2 Taylor Wooley

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 * The Spencers are old, about seventy.
 * Also, Holden's last name is Caulfield. Holden Caulfield.
 * As soon as Holden makes it into Mr. Spencer's room, he has second thoughts.
 * Mr. Spencer is reading the //Atlantic Monthly//, surrounded by Vicks Nose Drops, and wearing a bathrobe.
 * They talk about Mr. Thurmer, the headmaster, and the way he told Holden that life is a game.
 * Holden's not quite buying it. It's only a game, he thinks, if you're on the side of all the hot-shots.
 * We also learn some key info: this is the fourth school Holden's been booted from; he says "boy!" a lot; he was sixteen during all this; he has gray hair; and he acts like he's twelve—except when he doesn't.
 * Mr. Spencer picks his nose.
 * Nice.
 * Just when he decides he'd better get out because Mr. Spencer's about to start lecturing him, it starts. (The lecture, that is.)
 * Mr. Spencer wants to know what's wrong with Holden, and our narrator admits that he failed four classes.
 * In fact, the only reason he passed English is because he'd read all the books before, at another school (before he was kicked out of that one).
 * Spencer then resorts to a low blow: he makes Holden read his final exam essay out loud
 * After really ticking Holden off with this move, Spencer wants to know why Holden left his previous schools.
 * Holden isn't very forthcoming to his history teacher, but he tells us that he left because he was "surrounded by phonies" and the headmaster was a "bastard."
 * Holden gets out of there after that. As he heads out the front door he thinks he hears Spencer yelling something like "Good luck!" after him.

Chapter 2 Notes Katie A Holden starts out by explaining how Mr. Spencer is a nice guy, that makes a lot of jokes that he believes are hilarious, but Holden differs in that opinion. Mr. Spencer asks him about his discussion with the principal, and explains that idea that life is a game. Holden doesn't agree with that idea, saying some people are on the side with the "hot shots" and some aren't. Mr. Spencer talks about Holden's poorly written Egyptian paper, with the note to Mr. Spencer about flunking him. Mr. Spencer seems to feel bad about flunking Holden, but he doesn't want to show it. Holden admits he has little concern for his future, and Mr. Spencer tells him he will at some point, but by then, it will be too late for him to fix it. Holden leaves, and Mr. Spencer wishes him luck.

Chapter 2 Notes by Noah Clemens
 * Holden says goodbye to Mr Spencer but regrets going to see him.
 * Mr Spencer lectures Holden about grades and school.
 * He brings up Holden's Egypt paper.
 * This is the 4th school Holden is kicked out of.
 * Spencer tries to convince Holden to think about his future and work harder.
 * Holden gets tired of hearing it and leaves

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Catcher in the Rye ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 2 **


 * Chapter 2 by Raivyn Brown**

<span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Mr. Spencer <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">'s house makes <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Holden <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> depressed. It's smell and appearance reminds him of old age. <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Mr. Spencer <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> greets him warmly, and they start to talk. At one point, Mr. Spencer tells <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Holden <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> to heed <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Dr. Thurmer <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">'s advice that life is a game that must be played by the rules. Holden agrees, but privately comments that life is really only a game for people on the winning side. <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Mr. Spencer <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> next comments that he once met with <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Holden <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">'s parents, who are "grand" people, which strikes Holden as a "phony" word. Mr. Spencer continues to lecture him, reminding Holden that he failed history because he knew nothing and wrote an atrocious essay on the Egyptians. He even reads the essay to Holden. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Eventually, <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Holden <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> begins to tune out, and wonders to himself where the <span class="inline-symbol" style="color: #fe463a; font-family: Lato,;">ducks <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> in the Central Park lagoon go during winter. <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Mr. Spencer <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> asks why <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Holden <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> failed out of two other prep schools (Whooton and Elkton Hills). Thinking Spencer wouldn't understand, Holden tells him only that it's a long story. But privately he says he wanted out of Elkton Hills because he was "surrounded by phonies," especially the headmaster who only gave his time to the wealthier, better-looking parents. When <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Mr. Spencer <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> encourages <span class="inline-character" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;">Holden <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato,;"> to plan for the future, Holden has had enough. He assures Spencer he's just going through a phase, and stands to leave. On his way out, Mr. Spencer wishes him "good luck," an expression Holden hates.


 * By Kevin K.:**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Summary__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Holden goes to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer’s place. Upon arrival, Mr. Spencer tries to lecture Holden about his academic failures. He does this by reading his optional essay. The material that Holden wrote on his essay had nothing to do with the prompt. Mr. Spencer tries to convince Holden to think about his future. However, Holden didn’t want to be lectured so he leaves. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Vocab:__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Navajo:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tribe of Native Americans. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Grippe:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flu **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Qualms (pg 17):__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one's own conduct; a misgiving. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Literary Devices__: **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Simile__: “Hot as a firecracker” **


 * Chapter 2 by Rosilla E.**
 * Holden goes to see Mr. Spencer and say good-bye but he soon regrets it
 * In his room, Holden is surrounded by pills and medication all over the place and smell of Vicks nose drops engulfed the room
 * Mr. Spencer then starts lecturing Holden about his lack of effort in his classes
 * This is the fourth school Holden got kicked out of
 * He reads aloud Holden’s poorly written history essay about the Egyptians
 * Spencer tries to convince Holden about his future
 * Not wanting to listen to his lecturing, Holden leaves


 * Chapter 2 Notes by Morgan W.: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden Caulfield visits Mr. Spencer, his english teacher, and immediately has second thoughts because he is surrounded by nose drops and is reading the Atlantic Monthly. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Spencer tells Holden that he should listen to Mr. Thurmers advice that “life is a game”. Holden agrees, but silently says that life is only a game for people who are winning. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden admits that he is failing four classes and their conversation quickly turns into a lecture about discipline. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The only reason that Holden is not failing english is because he had already read all the books in his previous schools. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden’s focus drifts and he begins thinking about where ducks go when the lake freezes. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden finally is able to leave Mr. Spencer saying that he needs to get his gym equipment. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On his way out Mr. Spencer says “good luck” which Holden hates. **


 * Ch. 2 notes by Erica T.:**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden goes to say goodbye to Mr. Spencer **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Spencers are old **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As soon as Holden visits him, he soon regrets it. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Spencer has the flu **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Spencer lectures Holden about life **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden has been kicked out of 4 schools and now has gray hair and acts like a little boy. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He doesn't try in school and Mr. Spencer reads Holden's history paper out loud. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden is annoyed and finally made an excuse to leave **


 * Chapter 2 Notes by Clare D.: **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Plot Summary__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden greets Mr. Spencer in a friendly manner, showing the closeness between the teacher and student community **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spencer tries to lecture Holden on his academic failures, in particular an essay he wrote on the Egyptians **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This shows Holden's lazy attitude as a student **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He tells Holden that “life's a game” andhe should learn the rules **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden shows limited interest in fixing himself but Mr. Spencer begs him to look toward his future **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Without wanting to be lectured, Holden says his goodbyes and leaves **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Important Quotations__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This quote, spoken by Mr. spencer and Holden, relates the theme that Holden is being oppressed to fit into a certain mold and “learn the rules”. But he blatantly does not want to play the game (to himself), he wants to beat to his own drum <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Even though he tells his teacher he does know that life is a game, in a sense he is being a “phony.” **

Grace S - Chapter 2
 * Holden describes Mr. and Mrs. Spencer: both about 70 years old. Mr Spencer has terrible posture and the Spencers own a Navajo blanket that Mrs. Spencer bought at Yellowstone Park. The Spencers get “a big bang” out of small things
 * Holden enters Mr. Spencer’s room and we learn Holden’s last name: Caulfield.
 * setting of the chapter is Mr. Spencer’s room; Mr. Spencer is sick and wrapped in the Navajo blanket in a bathrobe. Holden describes the scene as depressing and mentally insults Mr. Spencer’s robe and white hairy legs
 * Holden starts off the convo polite, greeting Mr. Spencer and making small talk about Mr. Spencer being sick and the football game.
 * Holden, who is sitting on Mr. Spencer’s bed, says how it’s as hard as a rock, as the conversation switches from a light tone to a serious tone, which Holden anticipated it would. The tone alters because Mr. Spencer brings up Holden being kicked out of Pencey Prep.
 * Holden mentions how his talk with Mr. Thurmer, the headmaster, included life being compared to a game, and Mr. Spencer pushes the idea onto Holden that life really is a game.
 * Holden agrees with Mr. Spencer but then slightly rejects the idea in his thoughts right after replying. (Major hypocrisy here: talks about how he hates fake people but then is fake with Mr. Spencer). Holden talks about how life is a game with people who are hot-shots (wealthy) but there is no game for the other kind of people (not so wealthy).
 * Holden and Mr. Spencer talk about Holden’s parents and how they will react to Holden being kicked out of school again, for the fourth time.
 * it is shown that Holden is self aware. He talks about how he shakes his head a lot and how he acts like a 12 year old sometimes. He also says “boy!” a lot.
 * Holden is 16 in this scene from the past, but 17 now as he is narrating. He has some gray hair on the side of his head.
 * Holden feels discredited because people, including his father, think that he acts too young for his age all the time, but he says how sometimes he acts older than he is.
 * Old Spencer comments about how “grand” Holden’s parents are, “grand” being a phony word to Holden, and picks up his magazine Atlantic Monthly and fails at throwing it on the bed. Holden picks it up and puts it on the bed for him. Holden then feels like he wants to leave immediately
 * Mr. Spencer asks Holden about his grades, and after Holden mentions that the only subject he is passing is English, Mr. Spencer mentions why he flunked Holden in history. Holden lies about scanning through the textbook to try to make Mr. Spencer feel better, but then Mr. Spencer asks holden to get Holden’s essay that he wrote for a history exam.
 * Mr Spencer, as he is reading aloud Holden’s horrible essay, lowkey scolds him for doing so bad. Then he reads aloud Holden’s note at the bottom of the essay. Holden is really upset that Spencer reads his essay and note out loud, but he sees that Mr. Spencer feels somewhat guilty for flunking him.
 * As Holden was giving the “old bull” to Mr. Spencer, his mind was in a different place. He was thinking about the ducks that lived near the lagoon near Central Park South. He was wondering where they go in the winter
 * Mr. Spencer asks Holden how he feels about failing his classes and failing at previous schools, but then Holden mentions that at Elkton Hills, he didn’t have difficulty, he just left. He didn’t tell Spencer why, but in his thoughts he says that the reason he didn’t like Elkton was because the school was full of phonies.
 * Mr. Spencer continues to ask Holden about if he cares about his grades or his future, but then says that Holden will care when it’s too late.
 * After Mr. Spencer admits that he is just trying to help Holden, Holden gets up off the bed and says how he has to go, giving an excuse relating to leaving equipment at a gym.
 * The chapter ends with Holden insisting that Mr. Spencer mustn't worry about him, and rejecting Spencer’s offer of hot chocolate and leaving the Spencer household while Mr. Spencer yells what Holden believed to be “Good Luck” as he left.


 * Chapter 2 - Shihab Prottoy **

> > =** "'Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?" **= =** "Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do." I thought about it for a minute. "But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess."' **=
 * ** Holden visits Mr. and Mrs. Spencer's household.  **
 * ** Mr. Spencer tells Holden that he should listen to Mr. Thurmers advice in that “life is a game”. To this statement, Holden agrees, but he claims that life is only a game to the individuals who are winning.  **
 * ** Holden says that he is failing four of his fi v e classes, and that the only reason he is passing English is because he has read the book in pre vious schools.  **
 * ** Mr. Spencer lectures him, but Holden's mind drifts off to think about ducks. **
 * ** Chapter ends with Holden disregarding what Mr. Spencer says, and leaving the house to what he thinks is Mr. Spencer saying "Good Luck". **
 * Important Quote: **

==** From this part of the conversation, I was able to understand that Holden doesn't really seem to have**** ideas for his future. He's just going with the flow, and seeing how things turn out for him. The repetition here made by J.D. Salinger tells me that Holden is truly unclear about his future plans. **== ==

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** Alexa K.: Chapter 2 Notes **

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mentioned in the previous chapter, Holden visits his old history teacher, Mr Spencer. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After he sees Mr Spencer’s, he immediately begins to regret his decision to visit him **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Spencer has the flu <span style="background-color: #faf8f5; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(the grippe). **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the conversation between them turns into a lecture for Holden **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Thurmer, headmaster of Elkton Hills **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He compares life to a game, Holden nods, but disagrees in his head. Holden says its only a game if you’re on the right side, with the hot shots. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr spencer asks why Holden is failing four classes **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he isn’t failing english because he has already read the books. (previous schools) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the fourth school he has been kicked out of **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Spencer then begins to lecture Holden and explains why he flunked him **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tells him that it is because of the essay he wrote about the Egyptians. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.66px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">during this conversation Holden becomes distracted and questions what ducks do when the lack freezes. **


 * Sujin Bang (P.8)**
 * **As soon as Holden goes in to Mr. Spencer's room he regrets going in to say goodbye**
 * **Mr. Spencer is reading //Atlantic Monthly//, surrounded by Vicks Nose Drops, and has a ratty bathrobe on**
 * **They talk some and Mr. Spencer says that life is a game and Holden agrees with him, but on the inside he is criticizing him saying "game my ass."**
 * **when Holden starts to think he better get out, Mr. Spencer starts lecturing him, and wants to know what's wrong with him because he has failed 4 classes**
 * **The only reason he didn't fail English because already read the books required at another school he has already been kicked out of.**
 * **Mr. Spencer takes out Holden's history final exam essay and makes him read it out loud, which Mr.Spencer failed him.**
 * **After pissing off Holden with the essay, Mr. Spencer asks Holden why he left his previous schools (He has been already kicked out 4 schools before Pency)**
 * **Holden really doesn't want to talk about it, but he says that he left because he was "surrounded by phonies" and the headmaster was a b**, like at Pency
 * Holden gets out the room after that, and before Holden leaves, Mr. Spencer says to him good luck
 * notes**

Chapter 2 by Jacob E.**
 * **Holden meets Mr. and Mrs. Spencer**
 * **Holden says that Mr. Spencer's home was deppressing**
 * **Holden talks with Mr. Spencer in his room**
 * **Mr. Spencer talks to Holden about life and lectures him on his history paper**
 * **As they talk, Holden starts to drift away from the conversation and thinks about ducks and where they go in the winter**
 * **Holden says that the word "grand" was a phony and he says the people at Elkton Hills were phonies**
 * **Holden leaves and hears Mr. Spencer says "Good Luck" to him**