Setting of "The Catcher in the Rye"

The Catcher in the Rye is an average sized novel in which everything throughout the course of the book happens in a matter of a few short days. The events of this book took place in New York in the late 1800's or early 1900's. Holden Caulfield, the main character, is at Pencey, a boarding school relatively close by in Pennsylvania. Holden soon leaves Pencey and takes a bus to New York in the middle of the night. He arrives in New York and quickly finds a hotel that is opposite the side of town that contains his home. The hotel is not a grand place and it is not necessarily on the good side of town, but somehow it is exactly what Holden is looking for. Holden goes to a number of bars trying to get a drink, and it takes quite a few until he finally finds a bar where the bartender does not pay attention and just does not really care. He gets extremely drunk and wanders around for quite a while. Sometimes he stays in his hotel, but the majority of the time Holden is out wandering around New York. One day he calls up a girl that he had previously dated on and off. They went out together and saw a show, which he hated, but she loved. After the show, they went ice skating, where they got into a horrible fight and he left without her. He also snuck into his house at one point just so he could see his sister. He thought his parents were there, but they had gone out for the night. While he was still there, his parents came home, and he was almost caught. He hid in his sister's closet until his mother left the room. He then stayed in his sister's room until he thought his parents were asleep. He then snuck back out of the house and wandered around some more. Holden was an adventurous young boy that traveled all over New York.