The Catcher in the Rye Group
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Posted by dymatsuoka on Monday March 17, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Bernice, Marty, and Laverne appear in Chapter 10. They are three girls from Seattle whom Holden meets in the Lavender Room, a lounge in a New York hotel. Holden asks them to dance, and spends some time talking to them. The girls are coarse and rude, interested not in Holden but in looking out for celebrities who might be passing by. Holden is offended by their superficiality and finds them pathetic, yet he cannot help himself from seeking their company, which is consistent with his tendency to act like the very people of whom he disapproves. Bernice, Marty, and Laverne emphasize for Holden the polar opposites of his sister Phoebe. They are crude, dull, and shallow, while she is "pretty and smart...somebody with sense".
