Where does the period go?

Question

at the end that is:

“Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is this school that’s in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. You probably heard of it. You’ve probably seen the ads, anyway. They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fencce. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time. I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. And underneath the guy on the horse‘s picture, it always says: ‘Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men.’ Strictly for the birds. They don‘t do any d**n more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn‘t know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all.. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way.” (Salinger 2)

should there be another period after the citation? like this...

"...that way." (Salinger 2).

????

HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED'

thansk :D

Answer 1

When the punctuation is a period or a comma, if this is what you're asking, it goes before the end quotation mark. Style guides sometimes vary on some of the rest of this, but . . . All other punctuation follows the quotation mark. However, even things like exclamations and question marks stay within a quote or, perhaps, a famous quote, like this: Weren't you down at the bookstore looking at "The Chicago Manual of Style" when the guy came in screaming, "Fire!" "Fire!" Or, "Remember the Alamo!"

As the saying goes, "Hope this helps."

EDIT: I misunderstood your question. Sorry about that. Heather is correct. In this particular case, no period is placed between the last word and the closing quotation mark (but, there are some exceptions, like if the quoted material ended with a book title that included punctuation in it); you use just one period; and that period goes after the closing parenthesis.

However, the rest of what I wrote is correct, however superfluous to your question it may be.

Answer 2

Looks to me like it should be:

"...And they probably came to Pencey that way” (Salinger 2).

Answer 3

No period after (Salinger 2)