Catcher in the Rye Characters
Died of leukemia at a young age.
Who is Allie?
The reason that Holden was suspended from Pencey Prep.
What is that he failed the majority of his classes?
"Daddy'll kill you."
Who is Phoebe?
Where DB lives.
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 Holden dates.
Who is Sally Hayes?
This is Holden's father's profession.
What is a corporate lawyer?
"How 'bout writing a composition for me, for English?"
Who is Stradlater?
The school Holden is expelled from at the start of the novel.
Where is Pencey Prey?
The word that Holden uses to describe almost every person he meets
What is a phony?
She changed her middle name to Weatherfield despite it being Josephine.
Who is Phoebe?
The object that belonged to Allie; Holden writes a composition about it.
What is a baseball glove?
"No boy ever said that to me in my entire life."
Who is Sally Hayes?
What neighborhood does Holden (and his family) live in?
Where is Manhattan?
A feeling that overcomes Holden often e.g. the reason he left Pencey and went home.
What is loneliness?
This girl was Holden's best friend and the girl he seems to obsess over throughout the novel.
Who is Jane Gallagher?
Holden discusses this play with the nuns.
What is the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet?
“This fall I think you’re riding for—it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling."
Who is Mr. Antolini?
The name of the park that Holden wanders around in.
Where is Central Park?
The place which represents Holden's desire for things to stay the same.
Where is the Museum of Natural History?
List Holden and his siblings in birth order from YOUNGEST to OLDEST.
Who are Phoebe, Allie, Holden, then D.B.?
What is the name of the play that Holden and Sally go to see on their date?
What was The Lunts?
“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
Who is Holden Caulfield?
The other two schools Holden has attended.
Where is Elkton Hills? Where is Whooton School?
Holden wonders where they go every winter.
What are the ducks?