The principal …show more content… “But my parents, especially my mother, she has ears like a goddam bloodhound”(158). In this quote, Holden explains the principal of his old school. Except if some boy had little old funny-looking parents”(14). “On sundays, for instance, old Haas went around shaking hands with everybody’s parents when they drove up to school. Holden wants to connect with Pencey and the things around him to try and find something in it that won’t bring him pain and misery. ![]() He longs for some relationship or connection to the world around him. Holden’s tone in this quote is one of longingness. I don’t care if it’s a sad goodbye or a bad goodbye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. “What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of goodby.
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