For the five last chapters in the book. I'm going to discuss about Holden telling people that he got kicked out of Pencey. I'm also going to say who he told that he was kicked out of Pencey.
In chapter 22, Holden tells Phoebe that he got kicked out of Pencey and she was really mad at him and was afraid that their dad would kill him. "Daddy'll kill you" (166) is what Phoebe told Holden. "'Oh, why did you do it?' She meant why did I get the ax again" (167). His answer was "A million reasons why" (167) He did list some reasons but this was his main answer to her question.
In chapter 23, Holden then tells Mr. Antolini that he was kicked out. Mr. Antolini was very shock! "Good God" (174) was what Mr. Antolini said after Holden told him that he was kicked out of Pencey. Holden said, "He told me to come right over if I felt like it" (174). So toward the end of that chapter he did proceeded to go over to Mr. Antolini's house.
In chapter 24, Holden told Mr. Antolini that he flunked out of Pencey and discussed why he did. Mr. Antolini asked Holden "What was the trouble?" (182). So Holden tells him every thing and it goes on and on threw out the whole chapter.
In chapter 25, Holden decides to "never go home again and I'd never go away to another school again" (198). He then plans to say good bye to Phoebe by writing her a letter and so forth.
In chapter 26, Holden is "sorry I told so many people about it" (214). Then he starts missing everyone and then the book ends.
So on my personal opinon, the ending of the book sucked. The last chapter for crying out loud was one page long. But I do find this quite interesting in the last chapter, "I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice.It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" (214) and by that I feel like Holden is just crashing.
In this arttical is explains similar stuff to Holden failing out of school. http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/6833-why-boys-fail-in-school.gs
I like how you looked at people's reactions to the news of his dropout----they are all variations of "Why did you do that?", showing that these people really do care about him. I think maybe at the end, in the passage you gave from Chp 26, he realizes that fact and that's why he says "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody". Its a good point I didn't really think about when I read it, but now that I think about it, I'm glad you brought it up.
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