Characters
16 year old who narrates the story and this point of view
Who is Holden
Belonged to Allie and had poems written on it
What is baseball mitt?
The gift that Holden buys for Phoebe, but breaks it when he's drunk
What is a record?
When Holden learns that Stradlater is on a date with Jane, he acts _______________, but he really feels _________________.
What is indifferent and jealous?
Who is the author of the book?
J.D. Salinger
Holden took this date to the show with the Lunts
Who is Sally?
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
Holden gives these people $10 because he feels they need it
What is the nuns?
Holden calls many people this throughout the book
What is phony?
What is one of Holden's constantly used word?
"Goddam"
The boy who jumped out the window rather than take back what he said about someone
Who is James Castle?
Holden used to go here as a kid for school and now Phoebe goes there
What is the Museum of Natural History?
Holden swears a lot throughout the novel to seem
What is older?
Holden feels happy at the end as he watches Phoebe
What is ride the carousel?
Not sanitary; unhealthy; tending to harbor or spread disease
What is unsanitary?
Women who Holden tries to make a date with when he gets to New York
Who is Faith Cavendish?
Where Holden takes Phoebe at the end of the book before he gets sick
What is the carousel?
Holden argues with her because he refuses to let her go away with him
Who is Phoebe?
Holden gives the impression that he feels a lingering sense of loss over this person's death
Who is Allie?
Tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing
What is provocative?
The Columbia student who advises Holden to see a psychoanalyst
Who is Carl Luce?
Holden wants to be this after hearing a little boy singing a song.
What is "The Catcher in the Rye?
The place where Holden goes in New York after leaving Pencey
What is the Edmont hotel?
Holden's tone at the end of the story, as he reflects on having told so many people about "this madman stuff" is
What is regretful and lonely?
The quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
What is humility?