Holden feels isolated and alone after getting in a fight with Stradlater. He goes to Ackley's room to spend the night but Ackley keeps pestering him about the fight. Feeling lonely and depressed, Holden decides to leave Pencey Prep immediately and go to New York without telling anyone. He plans to get a cheap hotel room in the city and rest up until Wednesday when the school would notify his parents that he's been expelled. Holden wants to avoid being home when his mother first finds out because she gets very hysterical about bad news.