Why do you think Holden cries before he leaves to Pency?

I think there are various reasons to Holden crying before he leaves Pency. An obvious reason would be because of regret. Pency is not the first school that he left and I think he’s sad because he failed to get through another school year. He also probably has some emotional attachments to his school since he had friends there such as Ackley, although Holden seemed to be a lonely figure, he often showed a connection to Ackley and sometimes Stradlater. This leads to another reason to Holden crying. I think he felt that people didn’t understand him and felt like nobody was there to accompany him in the world. When he went to see his history teacher, Holden didn’t feel like he was receiving support from any of his teacher’s words. Right before he decided to leave Pency, he had a big fight with Stradlater about a stubject that Holden was extremely sensitive about. Lastly, he visit’s Ackley’s room Holden feels that he does not receive emotional comfort from someone he relies on, which heightens his sense of loneliness. His crying also shows his confusion about his future. I think Holden has an identity crisis so he doesn’t know who he really is, and doesn’t know what his next steps will be. His questions about the ducks prove this, because the question indirectly means, “What should your next step in life be if you really have nothing left?” They crying might indicate the emotional strain that he is going through. Holden’s troubled emotional state is subtly mentioned through his actions such as the times why he becomes violent for no reasons and sometimes feeling lonely for the smallest reasons. Maybe the crying was a temporary emotional breakdown.