Catcher in the Rye
Characters
Characters
Young lady who goes on a date with Holden
Who is Sally Hayes?
The elevator operator who offers to get Holden a prostitute.
Who is Maurice?
Holden's habit that makes it hard for us to know what is true and what isn't.
What is lying?
What is Pency Prep?
The word that Holden uses to describe almost every person he meets
What is a phony?
The name of the prostitute who comes to Holden's room.
Who is Sunny?
Holden's roommate at Pencey Prep.
Holden's reason for asking everyone to get a drink with him.
What is loneliness?
The place Holden likes because it doesn't change.
What is the Museum of Natural History?
A group of people that Holden cannot stand/thinks are phony.
What are adults?
The girl who was Holden's best friend and who he seems to obsess over throughout the novel.
Who is Jane Gallagher?
The annoying neighbor in the dorms.
Who is Ackley?
Holden and Sally go see this.
A play (mantinee)
The name of the park that Holden wanders around in with the ducks.
Where is Central Park?
Animals about which Holden obsesses.
What are ducks?
List Holden's siblings (living and dead)
Who are Phoebe, Allie, and D.B.?
Holden's last name.
What is Caufield?
Holden is afraid of this and struggles with it throughout the book.
What is growing up?
Where Holden gets in an argument about what happens to the fish in the winter.
What is a cab?
The object that belonged to Allie; Holden writes an essay about it.
What is the baseball glove.
Died of leukemia at a young age.
Who is Allie?
This character has gray hair even though he is young.
Who is Holden?
The reason that Holden was expelled from Pencey Prep.
What is that he failed his classes (other than English !)?
D.B. lives here.
Where is Hollywood?
Holden is always wearing it and he seems very attached to it.
What is the red hunting hat?