The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 26 Summary

  • "That's all I'm going to tell you about," Holden says, which means we're starting the last chapter much as we started the first.
  • He says he's not going to talk about how he went home after that, how he got sick, and what school he's going to go to next year "after [he gets] out of here."
  • He says there's one psychoanalyst around who keeps asking if he's going to apply himself next year – how should he know?
  • D.B. is there at the moment, too, having driven up along with an English woman in order to see Holden.
  • He asks Holden a lot of questions, but in particular what he thinks about all this business (the stuff we just read, basically).
  • Holden doesn't know. He does miss everyone he told us about, even jerks like Stradlater.
  • That's the thing, Holden concludes: "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

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