"She came in and took her coat off right away and sort of chucked it on the bed. She had on a green dress underneath" (Salinger 95).
"It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell--I don't know why exactly" (Salinger 95-96).
In this quote, prostitution is used to show how the girl escapes and avoids societal expectations. To the outside world, she seems like an ordinary girl, but she is not. She is a prostitute, and it seems as though she wishes people would stop thinking she is young, especially when Holden asks how old she is and she says she is old enough to know better than to believe him when he says he is twenty-two (Salinger 95). By being a prostitute, and succumbing to that vice, the girl defies and ignores society's expectations of who she should be.
"It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell--I don't know why exactly" (Salinger 95-96).
In this quote, prostitution is used to show how the girl escapes and avoids societal expectations. To the outside world, she seems like an ordinary girl, but she is not. She is a prostitute, and it seems as though she wishes people would stop thinking she is young, especially when Holden asks how old she is and she says she is old enough to know better than to believe him when he says he is twenty-two (Salinger 95). By being a prostitute, and succumbing to that vice, the girl defies and ignores society's expectations of who she should be.
"She was very nervous, for a prostitute. She really was. I think it was because she was young as hell. She was around my age" (Salinger 95).