In ch. 2, Holden is critical of Old Spencer for getting “a big bang” out of buying an old, beat-up Navajo blanket and for repeatedly calling him “boy” because Holden hates the insulting term. The irony of this is unveiled in ch. 3-4 when Holden does two similar things. What are the two parallel things that Holden has/does in this chapter that mimic Old Spencer? Why do you think Salinger included such connections between Holden and Old Spencer? What point was Salinger trying to make?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt