The Catcher in the Rye (Pg 39-80)

Summary
Stadlater comes back from his date with Jane.  He is unsatisfied with the composition Holden wrote, so Holden rips it up since Stradlater didn't appreciate it.  They start talking about the date and Holden starts getting irritated.  Then he randomly takes a swing at Stradlater in the bathroom hoping the toothbrush in his mouth would cut his throat open, but misses.  He ends up on the floor after Stradlater punches him back and is pinned to the floor.  Holden repeatedly calls him a "moron" and he knew people like Stradlater would get annoyed.  Stradlater gets off of him with a warning, and leaves to go to Ackley's room.
Ackley is asleep when Holden goes over and lies to him saying he fought for Ackley's honor. Ackely falls back to sleep and Holden can't stop thinking about Stradlater's date with Jane.  Holden knows Stradlater can pretty much get any girl he wants because of his technique to show he was both sincere and and nice. Then he decides that instead of leaving Wednesday, he was going to leave that night and come back refreshed. He was going to take the train to New York and book a hotel. He packs his stuff and leaves with the money his grandmother sends him for his birthday four times a year.
On the train, he usually buys four magazines and a ham sandwich and could usually read through all tghe magazines but tonight he felt different. A lady boards the train and Holden finds out she's the mother of one of his classmates, Ernest Morrow.  He introduces himself as Rudolf Shmidt, the school janitor, but says he's a student there. He starts "shooting it" which was him basically feeding her crap about Ernest who is the complete opposite of how he's describing him. He lies to her saying he was having an operation to remove a tumor in his brain and she tells him to visit them in the summer,
He got off at Penn Station and wants to call someone but can't because everyone is just going to get him in trouble somehow or he can't reach them.  He checks into the Edmont Hotel and calls it crumby.  From his window he can see the other side of the hotel and other people's rooms.  He sees a guy dressing as a woman and in another window he sees a couple squirting water on each other.  He said he doesn't understand sex that well but he does have his ideas about it. Then he remembered he had the number of a woman in the area that a friend gave him from Princeton.  So he calls up Faith Canvendish and says he wants to meet up with her but never got to.
He thought about his sister who he really cares about and tells about her personality. Next he goes down to the club Lavender Room and see three women and starts dancing with one of them. He starts to like one of them and tells them Gary Cooper just left which bummed her out. They stopped dancing, took their drinks, and left.
Holden remembers being with Jane and how they used to play tennis and golf. Holden is a really good golfer and once almost made it into a movie clip.  He said to never kid a girl you liked and he never used to joke around with Jane which made it uncomfortable for him later on. To stop thinking about her, he takes a cab down to Greenwich Village to Ernie's to listen to him playing the piano.

Quote
"I told him to stop off on the way to the can and give Mrs. Shmidt the time. Mrs. Shmidt was the janitor's wife. She was around sixty-five" (Salinger 45)

Reaction
I found the quote really funny but it reflected how Holden was still immature about resolving conflicts. The short sentences also added to the humor.