Characters
This is the game that Jane and Holden used to play when they spent time over the summer together.
What is checkers?
What is a baseball mitt?
This is where Holden goes in New York after leaving Pencey.
What is the Edmont Hotel?
When Holden learns that Stradlater is on a date with Jane, he acts _______, but he really feels ___________.
What is indifferent and jealous?
This man's murderer was obsessed with the Catcher in the Rye even reading aloud from it when he was caught by police.
Who is John Lennon?
This is Holden's brother who died of leukemia.
Who is Allie?
These are what Holden worries about in the winter and what they symbolize.
What are the ducks in the lagoon and the change of growing up (the need to adapt to change)?
Holden swears a lot throughout the entire novel to seem...
What is older?
Holden calls many people (including Sally, Stradlater, actors, and others) this throughout the book.
What is phony?
This is the religion of J.D. Salinger's father.
What is Judaism?
This is the color ink used by Holden's brother to write on his baseball mitt.
What is green?
This is where Holden used to go as a kid for school and what it symbolizes.
What is the Museum of Natural History and constancy?
This is the gift that Holden buys for Phoebe, but ends up breaking it.
What is the Little Shirley Beans record?
Holden feels happy at the end as he watches Phoebe do this.
What is ride the carousel?
This is ironic about J.D. Salinger's son.
What is he is an actorand Salinger writes about a character that hates actors for their phoniness?
This was Holden's student advisor at Whooton who went to Columbia after graduating.
Who is Carl Luce?
This is where Holden takes Phoebe at the end of the book before he gets sick.
What is the carousel?
Holden gives these people $10 because he feels they need it.
Who are the nuns?
Holden gives the impression that he feels a lingering sense of loss over this person's death.
Who is Allie?
The Book-of-the-Month Club which selected The Catcher in the Rye to be shipped out to its thousands of subscribers wanted to change this part of the book.
What is the title?
This is where Holden's former English teacher at the Elkton Hills School now teaches (after he left Elkton).
What is New York University?
This is what Holden wants to be after hearing a little boy singing a song.
What is the "The Catcher in the Rye" and the preservation of innocence?
This is who Holden argues with because he refuses to let them go away with him.
Who is Phoebe?
Holden's tone at the end of the story, as he reflects on having told so many people about "this madman stuff is...
What is regretful and lonely?
This author writing under the pseudonym John David California published an unauthorized sequel to the Catcher in the Rye which was later banned in the U.S.
Who is Fredrik Colting?