Ch. 5 Summary

      Every Saturday night the students at Pencey would eat steak. Parents would visit on Sundays so, whenever their parents ask what they had for dinner they would say steak. Even though the steak wasn't cooked well, it made it seem as if they were being taken care of. After eating the students would go outside into the snow and mess around. Holden admires the snow and says it looks pretty. Once they were done horsing around Holden and his "friend" Mal decided to go catch a movie or get some food because they didn't have dates. Holden invited Ackley along and they ended up playing pinball and eating hamburgers. When they get back to Pencey, Ackley won't leave so Holden said he had to write Stradlaters composition. Ackley leaves eventually and Holden starts writing about his late little brother, Allie's, left handed baseball mitt. He explains how there is poems written on the fingers of the mitt in green ink. As soon as he finished he went to look out the window.