http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/08/not-always-so-sweet-emotion/ Lower Fairfield County's online book club Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/08/not-always-so-sweet-emotion/#comment-175 Olivia Just Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:50:48 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/?p=843#comment-175 I've often thought about that moment, too - why doesn't Holden go down to say hello to Jane? Perhaps it's simply because he doesn't want her to know he's been kicked out — he tells Stradlater a few pages on not to tell Jane he's "flunked out"of Pencey — but it could be more than that as well. Throughout the next chapters, as he wanders through New York, he continually expresses the intention to "give old Jane a buzz", but he never really goes through with the action. Maybe he's worried that Jane will see him differently outside of the golf-and-checker-playing summers in Maine - or, that she will seem different as well. He might not want to shatter his ideal of her from his summer experiences. I’ve often thought about that moment, too – why doesn’t Holden go down to say hello to Jane? Perhaps it’s simply because he doesn’t want her to know he’s been kicked out — he tells Stradlater a few pages on not to tell Jane he’s “flunked out”of Pencey — but it could be more than that as well. Throughout the next chapters, as he wanders through New York, he continually expresses the intention to “give old Jane a buzz”, but he never really goes through with the action. Maybe he’s worried that Jane will see him differently outside of the golf-and-checker-playing summers in Maine – or, that she will seem different as well. He might not want to shatter his ideal of her from his summer experiences.

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