Symbols
The color of Holden's hunting hat.
What is red?
The name of the school Holden attends at the start of his flashback.
What is Pencey Prep?
Holden wants to know if she still keeps her kings in the back row.
Who is Jane?
or
Who is Jane Gallagher?
This is what Holden calls people who have some sort of advantage in life.
What is a hotshot?
The name of the Charles Dickens novel that Holden references on the first page of the novel.
What is David Copperfield?
Holden is standing next to this at the opening of his flashback, and it is symbolic of his rebellious nature.
What is the Revolutionary War cannon?
The state where Holden is at the beginning of the novel.
What is California?
This person wrote poems on his baseball mitt with green ink.
Who is Allie?
This is what Holden calls everyone at Pencey as he leaves in Chapter 7.
What are morons?
The literary device which demonstrates the author's attempt to recreate a natural flow of thoughts in written form.
What is stream of consciousness?
Holden writes Stradlater's composition about this.
What is Allie's baseball mitt?
This sport is pictured in the ad for Holden's school, and Holden considers it false advertising.
What is polo?
This person won't let Holden stay in his room in Chapter 7.
Who is Ackley?
This term is used as a term of endearment or to express closeness and familiarity.
What is old?
Holden is this type of narrator because we can't be sure we're getting the full or true story.
What is an unreliable narrator?
While Holden is talking to Old Spencer, he thinks about ____________________________ and wonders what happens to them.
What are the ducks in Central Park?
Where Holden is headed at the end of Chapter 7.
This person works for Hollywood, and Holden calls him a "prostitute."
Who is D.B.?
What is "and all"?
This is the subject of the history essay that Old Spencer read out loud to Holden.
Who are the Egyptians?
One reason Holden feels like he is like the ducks.
What is Holden is being kicked out of Pencey?
OR
What is Holden is being forced out of childhood/forced to grow up?
The name of the hill where Holden stands at the start of the flashback as he looks down at the football game at Pencey.
What is Thomsen Hill?
As Holden packs up to leave Pencey, he gets sad when he thinks about the skates this person got him.
Who is Holden's mother?
Holden uses this word to add emphasis and to try to convince readers he is telling the truth.
What is really?
The opening line of Chapter 6 that establishes Holden's unreliability about the fight with Stradlater.
What is: "Some things are hard to remember"?