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"I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger in 1945 for Collier's magazine, which is...

"I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger in 1945 for Collier's magazine, which is told in first-person narrative mode by Holden Caulfield. Salinger later reworked this short story to incorporate it into his classic novel Catcher in the Rye. Boarding school drop-out Holden Caulfield overlooks a basketball match from a hill. He then pays his elderly history teacher Mr Spencer a visit, who lectures him about his academic failure. Holden tells Mr Spencer about meeting the mother of a "lousy" fellow student on the train, and lying to her about how wonderful her son was. He says he feels bad about dropping out of school mainly because his mother had just sent him ski boots, albeit the wrong kind. Holden likes this teacher, but realizes that he gets no sympathy or understanding from him, so he leaves abruptly. He takes a train to New York City and sneaks into his family's apartment, where he talks to his kid sisters Phoebe and Viola. Even Phoebe admonishes him for his academic failure. Holden finally owns up to his parents in a scene that is only described very briefly and indirectly ("When they were all done with me ..."). He concludes that he won't be sent back to school