The narrator
in the story isCaulfield, and inof Catcher in the Rye, we learn that the
Holden's brother D.B. is in Hollywood. Hollywood is not too far from where Holden is staying
right now, and D.B. comes to visit his brother "practically every weekend". D.B has a
Jaguar, and is planning on possibly driving Holden home next month, if Holden ends up going home
at that time. D.B.'s car cost a lot of money. It is an English car and "can do around two
hundred miles an hour". According to Holden, the Jaguar cost D.B. close to four thousand
dollars.
Holden says that D.B. is rich, but he didn't used to be. D.B. used
to be "a regular writer", and he wrote a "terrific book of short stories"
called The Secret Goldfish. Holden thinks that the best story in the book
is "The Secret Goldfish", which is about a little kid who "wouldn't let anybody
look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money".
D.B.
no longer writes what Holden considers to be serious literature. He works in Hollywood now,
probably writing screenplays or something along that line, and he makes a lot of money. Holden
does not approve of what his brother is doing. He thinks that D.B. is prostituting himself just
to make money, writing material that is unworthy of his great talent (Chapter
1).
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