This is the author's attempt to recreate the way a person thinks in writing. In The Catcher in the Rye, it is evident when Holden goes off on a tangent or digresses from his main story.
What is stream of consciousness?
This thing Holden stands next to during the big football game at Pencey represents his rebellious nature.
What is the Revolutionary War Canon?
Where D.B. now lives and works.
What is Hollywood?
I am Holden's history teacher at Pencey Prep.
Who is Old Spencer?
Holden writes Stradlater's composition about an object used for this game.
What is baseball?
Because Holden is both a character and the narrator, the novel is told from the ___________ _________________ point of view.
What is first person?
An advertisement for the school, symbolic of the phony nature of Pencey Prep, depicts this image.
What is a boy playing polo on a horse?
Where Holden is at the start of his flashback regarding the "madman stuff" that happened to him.
What is on top of the hill near the football field
or Thomsen Hill?
I am called a "prostitute" by my brother for selling out and writing for the movies.
Who is D.B.?
Holden used to play this game with Jane.
What is checkers?
When Holden reveals, "Some things are hard to remember," it provides evidence that he is this type of narrator.
What is unreliable?
The color of Holden's hunting hat.
What is red?
Where Holden goes after he leaves Pencey.
What is New York City?
I am invited to go to the movies with Holden, even though he doesn't really like me.
Who is Ackley?
Holden skips this big game at Pencey.
What is the football game?
When Holden says he is not going to tell us that "________________ ____________________ crap," it is an allusion to the novel by Charles Dickens.
What is David Copperfield?
When this happens, Holden wants to know where the ducks in Central Park go.
What is when the lagoon freezes?
Where Holden was when he punched out the windows following Allie's death.
What is the garage?
I am hotshot and a star on the basketball team.
Who is Stradlater?
Holden thinks life is only a game if you are the side with the people he calls these.
What are hotshots?
The place at which Holden is telling his story or where Holden is at the beginning of the novel.
What is California or a hospital in California?
These things are symbolic of Jane's innocence.
What are the kings in the back row?
The name of the wing where Holden lives in his dorm, which is also the name of the Pencey alumnus who came to give a speech at the school.
What is Ossenburger?
I meet Holden on the train to NYC.
Who is Mrs. Morrow?
Holden tells Old Spencer this person told him life is a game.
Who is Dr. Thurmer?