The start of Catcher

From the first few pages, I see it is a first person novella. The character is unresponsible, forgetting equipment for his fencing team. He is currently failing in all classes in the exception of english. Not sure If I like this book (or maybe it's just the main character).

Holden goes to his old teacher because of talk about his last essay. The teacher was was mockingly sarcastic as he read holden's essay letter of saying how he did not take the the time to do an asignment. My sided with the teacher( messed up I know) but in the general sense he was right. Holden needs some character development.