I think that Holden will have a lot of time to think over what his life has come to up to that point. Since he is most likely going to be by himself, I think he will spend a lot of time thinking about his family and the people at Pencey Prep. I think that as he is walking around the city, he is going to bump into someone, whether it be a stranger or someone he knew. Holden is going to try to act like an adult and swing his red hat around to the back like he always would do. But unfortunately she or he will still think of Holden as a child and will not treat him like the adult he was trying to be. Holden will feel a bit "shot down" for a while after he leaves the person he was talking to but will eventually get over it as he loses himself in New York City.
I believe that Holden will try find some ducks in a fountain that he has an interest in and see if he can feed them and watch them swim. Later that day I think he will use his ice skates that he packed and head over towards the big ice skating rink in Central Park. There, all of his memories will flood back into his mind.Perhaps it was because Holden and his family had been to the same ice rink when he was a child. I think he is going to remember all of the old schools he has been to and all of his friends he had met there. He is also going to think about Ally and Jean, two of the people who are very close to him. He might also think about his parents' reaction to him leaving Pencey prep and he might think about what he will say to them to not make them as angry.
Soon enough, however, I feel as though something bad will happen. I don't know what it will be but I feel like he is going to lose something in the city. Maybe he might lose Ally's baseball glove and goes on a panic to find it, feeling miserable until he can. He is going to beat himself up for it, constantly in an depressed or infuriated state as he looks for his most prized possession. I think he is going to be so upset that he takes off his red hat and throws it away.
