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 suspended from Pencey Prep.
What is that he failed his classes (other than English !)?
"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
What does Holden say at the end of the book?
This represents Holden’s desire to stand out and protect himself.
What is the red hunting hat?
Young lady who Holden dates.
Who is Sally Hayes?
The elevator operator who offers to get Holden a prostitute.
Who is Maurice?
Holden idealizes people who have this quality.
What is innocence?
"It’s full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac..."
What does Holden say about Pencey Prep?
This is the item of Allie's that Holden keeps with him.
What is a his baseball glove?
Holden’s roommate at Pencey who goes on a date with Jane Gallagher.
Who is Stradlater?
Holden's roommate at Pencey Prep.
This is where Holden is narrating the story from.
What is a mental hospital/facility?
"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was."
What does Holden say about the Museum of Natural History?
A feeling that overcomes Holden often e.g. the reason he left Pencey and went home.
What is loneliness?
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 is deeply moved by this childlike activity, which he watches at the end. .
What is the carousel in Central Park?
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
Who is Mr. Antolini?
Holden obsesses over these animals, concerned with their well-being.
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 takes Phoebe here at the end of the novel.
What is the Carousel?
"You don’t like anything that’s happening."
Who is Phoebe to Holden?
This place represents Holden's ideal of preserving childhood innocence.
The Rye Field.