quotation analysis

"i mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?"(p. 130) This quote was directed at Sally Hayes by Holden when he was talking about whether or not she liked school or not. I'm not sure what this quote means, which is why I chose it. when he says "unless you did something", i didn't really know what something he was talking about. I think that it might have to do with school, and how he felt that if he got to involved in school that something would go wrong, as if it had happened to him before. That is possibly why Holden has been in and out of so many schools; because he felt that he should get out while he was still ahead, which is weird because he never really applied himself in school anyway. Maybe Holden has a different definition for ahead, not meaning in an academic sense, but in a friendship sense. Without this quote, we wouldn't really have an idea of why Holden was getting kicked out of so many schools. With it, it gives us a clue as to what is going on in Holden's head and how he thinks about the whole school matter.