After Holden thought that he might get pneumonia and die, the idea of what Phoebe would do if this really happened crossed his mind. He remembered how much Phoebe likes him and decided to go home early to see her.
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Holden Caulfield suffers from bipolar disorder therefore should get get attention in a rest home.
The reason is that Holden wakes up finding Mr. Antolini stroking his forehead or something, which Holden suspects might be a homosexual "pass". Yet almost as soon as he is out of the apartment, Holden begins to ask himself if he might have been mistaken. At this point in the book, Holden is on the verge of a breakdown, and not able to think or reason completely clearly.
He has a nervous breakdown and ends up in an insane asylum.
Yes. Holden narrates the entire story from a mental rest home from just outside Hollywood, California.
When Holden says he wants to move west, he is not actually meaning that he will move west. Metaphorically speaking, he wants to move west were he can be mute and deaf, but it actually means that he wants to commit suicide. He doesnt commit suicide because when he sees that his little sister wants to go with him west, he is afraid that since he is depressed of Allie's death, that his little sister will kill herself after Holden kills himself.