Characters
Symbols
Plot Trivia
Literary Terms/Salinger
Vocabulary
100
16-year-old who narrates the story and this point of view
Who is Holden Caulfield and first person narrator.
100
Belonged to Allie and had poems written on it/ what color ink?
What is baseball mitt/green?
100
The gift that Holden buys for Phoebe, but breaks it when he's drunk
What is a record? Little Shirley Beans
100
When there are two frameworks within a novel: an inside and outside framework. (Often takes shape when the speaker is recounting an event or story while in a different location and separated from the location by time and space. Name one movie/book example of this (cannot be Catcher in the Rye!)
What is frame story?
100
to be analyzed by a method originally introduced by Sigmund Freud
What is psychoanalyzed?
200
Holden took this date to the show with the Lunts
Who is Sally?
200
What does Holden worry in the winter and what do they symbolize?
What is the ducks in the lagoon and the change of growing up (the need to adapt to change).
200
Holden gives these people $10 because he feels they need it
What is the nuns?
200
The reader sees what the protagonist thinks about in a random association of ideas. Basically, writing the way we think.
What is stream of consciousness?
200
a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments
What is a gladstone?
300
The boy who jumped out the window rather than take back what he said about someone
Who is James Castle?
300
Holden used to go here as a kid and now Phoebe goes there
What is the Museum of Natural History? Symbolizes constancy.
300
Holden leaves these on the subway while attending Pencey?
What are foils?
300
The city J.D Salinger was born in.
What is New York City?
300
sameness.
What is monotony?
400
The Columbia student who advises Holden to see a psychoanalyst
Who is Carl Luce?
400
Where Holden takes Phoebe at the end of the book before he gets sick. (What does it symbolize?)
What is the carousel?
400
The religion Holden's father ends up giving up when he marries Holden's mother.
What is Catholicism?
400
A story in which the central character is searching for something, such as a person, location, or abstract value. (Give one example of this, movie/book--> Not Catcher in the Rye!)
What is a Quest Narrative?
400
Tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexingthe condition of having stale or foul-smelling breath
What is halitosis?
500
Woman whom Holden tries to make a date with when he gets to New York
Who is Faith Cavendish?
500
Holden wants to be this after hearing a little boy singing a song. Symbolism? (Who wrote the original poem?)
What is "The Catcher in the Rye?" Symbolizes the preservation of innocence. Robert Burns.
500
Weatherfield
What is the middle name that Phoebe gives herself in her notebook?
500
The year Catcher in the Rye was published?
1951
500
contrary to what was expected or intended.
What is ironical?
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