older woman is not a coincidence but rather a cognizant attempt to link the three. In his relations with females, Holden sabotages his relationships. When he is with Sally Hayes he starts to fool around with her but when they are in a cab and can only "horse around" (p125). While in the hotel Holden observes the other perverts who arouse him. "I was feeling pretty horny" (p63) he admits, after watching a male transvestite (see above). Next, he decided to call Faith Cavendish, (an 'easy' girl who "didn't mind doing it once in a while" p63) at a time when he knew she could not meet him. Then, when she attempts to make contact with him later he avoids it by declaring, "Tonight's the only time I can make it" (p66). A premium example of his subconscious controlling his rejection of women was with Sunny, the prostitute. In that situation, Holden has a girl alone with him in private, who is willing to engage in intimate relations with him but when she started "getting funny. Crude and all" (p97) Holden gets nervous and says he just had an "operation" in order to avoid making sexual contact. He then loses ten dollars and gets beat-up because he refused to get friendly with a girl. All three of the incidents described above were opportunities in which Holden decided not to get sexual with girls and went so far as to purposefully avoid them. On sexual matters Holden is a hypocrite. A flagrant and disturbing case of homosexuality takes place in the home of Mr. Antolini. First, when Holden goes to bed Antolini says "Good night, handsome" (p191). Next, while Holden is sleeping on a couch, with his pants off, he is awakened by Antolini "petting" him "on the G.D. head" (p192). This situation is compounded by the fact that for Holden, that "kind of stuff's happened to me about twenty time since I was a kid" (p193). In addition, perverts were always "being perverty when I'm [Holden] around" (p105). Such evidence is indisputable, as it is stated by Holde...
