Failed Pursuits
Holden would often consider calling this person, but always found some reason or way to change the subject for himself and do something else,
Who is Jane?
When Holden is talking to Sally, he mixes her up with this person mentally and acts kindly, until he remember who he's talking to and reverts to being rude.
Who is Jane Gallagher?
What is phony?
In Chapter 10, Holden goes to the Lavender Room at the hotel. He talks about how in New York, (blank) goes far.
What is money?
Holden's mother sends him these a couple days before he leaves Pencey, and he feels guily while packing them.
What are ice skates?
Holden feels like this is happening to him in the later chapters of the book and tries to talk to his dead brother, Allie, to stop it.
What is disappearing?
In Chapter 6, Holden is criticizing Stradlater for performing a specific kind of personal hygiene nearby.
What is clipping his fingernails?
In Chapter 25, when Holden goes to the train station, he briefly mentions doing something.
What is sleeping in the waiting room?
Holden tries to find this animal on the frozen Central Park lake multiple times, asking a cab driver where they go during the winter.
What are ducks?
Holden Caulfield pretends to be shot in this place in the book.
In Chapter 8, Holden meets an old woman who asks him about her son, Ernest Morrow. Holden immediately thinks of this anecdote.
What is whipping people with a towel.
In Chapter 19, while Holden was at the Wicker Bar, he said that the bar would've made anyone feel this way.
What is like they hated everyone in the world?
When Holden is talking to Sally, she asks him what he wants to do with his life.
What is being the catcher in the rye, catching children before they fall off the cliff?
In this chapter, Holden considers his funeral and how it might affect the people he knew.
What is Chapter 20?
Where the cab driver that Holden calls "corny" drove him.
What is the Edmont Hotel?
The more expensive the school is, the more (blank) it has, according to Holden.
What are crooks?
Over the course of the book, Holden mentions that he's left at least this many schools.
What are three?
At the end of Chapter 1, as Holden is going to Mr. Spencer, he feels this way about the roads. He goes on to feel similarly much later in the book.
What is feeling like he was disappearing?
At the end of Chapter 7, Holden almost trips over these on a staircase.
What are peanut shells?
In Chapter 21, Holden remarks that he wishes the reader could see someone in clothing that his mother bought from Canada.
Who is Phoebe?