Catcher in the Rye
Characters
Characters
Died of leukemia at a young age.
Who is Allie?
This character has gray hair on one side of their head.
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?
An object that is in nearly every scene of the novel; Holden seems very attached to it.
What is the red hunting hat?
The young lady who Holden goes on a date with in the novel.
Who is Sally Hayes?
The elevator operator who offers to get Holden a prostitute.
Who is Maurice?
Holden's favourite activity at a bar. (NOT DRINKING)
What is dancing?
Holden is here when he has the conversation with the nun.
What is the breakfast bar in Grand Central Station?
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 father's job.
What is a corporate lawyer?
The name of the nightclub that starts with a color. (Also where he meets the three girls and dances with them)
What is the Lavender Room?
A feeling that overcomes Holden often e.g. the reason he left Pencey and went home.
What is loneliness/depression/sadness?
The girl who was Holden's best friend and who he seems to obsess over throughout the novel.
Who is Jane Gallagher?
The piano player who loved looking at himself in the mirror.
Who is Ernie?
Holden discusses this play with the nuns.
What is the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet?
The name of the park that Holden wanders around in.
Where is Central Park?
Animals about which Holden obsesses.
What are ducks?
List Holden AND his siblings in birth order from YOUNGEST to OLDEST.
Who are Phoebe, Allie, Holden, then 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.