Holden's reflection on his ____ and inept fighting ability ____ events in the next chapter. He realizes that he is more ____ to attack someone verbally. What frightens him most in such a conflict is having to look at the other fellow's face. ____ he waits for the prostitute, Holden passes time by brushing his teeth and changing his shirt. He confesses ____ being "a little nervous" and admits that he is still a virgin. The ____ is that Holden, at age 16, seems to be what we might call a "good kid." When he is making ____ with a girl and she asks him to stop, he stops. "No" means no for Holden. He is interested ____ sex, but he doesn't ____ understand how to get there. What he ____ with Sunny is that he prefers not to get there with a prostitute. The ____ scene is depressing rather than erotic for Holden. He has to get to know a girl, and like her a lot, before he is comfortable ____ intimacy. One of the ____ things about Holden is that, ____ it all, he has some healthy values. In addition, he has ____ feelings toward Sunny. She is very young (about Holden's age) and seems to be ____ as nervous as he is. Holden is depressed that she is so young leading this kind of life. It ____ him to think of her going to a store to buy the green dress that she has worn for him and that he hangs in the closet ____ it won't get "all wrinkly," as Sunny puts it, in her child-like language. When "Jim Steele" says he is 22, she responds, "Like fun you are." And ____, there is something very spooky about Sunny. Holden tells us that this child with her squeaky little voice is ____ more frightening than a "big old prostitute, with a lot of makeup on her face and all. . . ." Holden needs a ____ out of this "big mess." He ____ decides that an elaborate lie is best. He ____ that he recently had surgery on his "clavichord," ____ Holden ____ or may not know is an old musical keyboard instrument. He tells Sunny that the clavichord is located "quite a ways down in the spinal canal." Sunny's response is to come on stronger. She sits ____ his lap and says he is cute. She says he ____ her of some guy in the movies. Then she starts talking ____, and Holden ends the session. Sunny says her ____ is ten dollars, but Holden ____ on paying her only the five that Maurice mentioned. He fetches her dress from the closet, and she leaves. Sunny ____ reminds us of a child as her parting curse is to call Holden a "crumb-bum.

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