When Holden decides to go to the Lavender Room Bar in the hotel he runs into three young ladies lounging around looking for movie stars to walk in. When Holden arrives at the bar he wants to try and order an alcholic drink but the waiter denies him without ID. This makes Holden a little upset at the turn of events. Then he starts eyeing a bunch of girls sitting in a booth a little ways from him. He decides that he's going to go dance with the blonde girl because the others were just out of "hunger". When he actually gets up to dance with her however he soon hates her for the way she acts and thinks. Once again Holden is following the path of bipolarism that his character constantly breeches on. This is a very confusing time for the reader because he makes us wonder why he got up to dance with them in the first place. Then when he finds out that the girls are merely there because they saw a movie star there recently, he jokes one of them how she just missed the movie star walking by behind her and then thinks that that was such a mean thing to do.
This once again brings about the question, "what is wrong with Holden?". We see that he decides to go to the bar to dance and drink yet when he gets there he hates the band and hates why he even went. Then he decides to dance with girls and hates every minute. He is able to torture people with his words and chooses to do so, yet he is sorry for how mean he is to them after the fact. "What is wrong with Holden?"
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