In the novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' by Jerome David Salinger, the author protrates a novella about the main character Holden Caulfield. Holden is throughtout the novel seen as a confused and depressed 16 year old. Without caring much about school, he drops off from Pencey High and travels to New York by himself. Even after he gets wise lectures from his old teacher's or overall anyone, he takes off. Once there, he gets sucked in alcohol and try's to met up old friends or met new people around there in order to step out and not feel depressed or alone. When he arrives at New York he mostly wonders out late at night while staying in a part of New York, in a hotel, yet he leaves and decides to find his way home finally. To his surprise though, his sister Phoebe is dissapointed since she thinks he got kicked out of school once again. Holden explains it's not like that and tries to run away once again and leave her and his family , but Phoebe doesn't want him to leave, she wants him to stay. In the end, he decides to stay and not let her go and stay mad just like he did with Allie,his dead brother.