Holden writes a note to Phoebe telling her to meet him here.
What is the Museum of Art?
“I have a feeling you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall.”
Who is Mr Antolini
She keeps her kings in the back row during checkers.
What is something Holden loves about Jane ?
Phoebe give this to Holden as he is getting ready to leave the house.
What is her Christmas money?
The narrator wonders about this throughout the whole novel, he even asks the cab drivers
What is the ducks in the lagoon? (Represents: the need to adapt to change)
Holden compares Mr. Antolini to him
Who is DB?
Holden's immediate and panicked reaction to Mr. Antolini's physical contact primarily reveals his profound anxiety about:
What is intimacy and the potential for perceived adult corruption.
The character that tells the narrator he should see a psychoanalysis
Who is Carl Luce?
This depresses Holden as he explores his old school.
What is the F word written on the walls?
The narrator went here as a child and now Phoebe goes there
What is Museum of Natural History?
*The safety and security in things staying the same…*He envies the statues that are frozen in place. *Desire for a fantasy world
"Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake... That's a deer shooting hat" (pg. 26)
Who is Ackley?
Worried that he could vanish as he crosses streets, Holden calls upon whom to keep him safe.
Who is Allie?
The ultimate significance of Holden's observation that Phoebe reaching for the gold ring on the carousel, despite the risk, makes him "feel so happy," is that it signifies his:
What is a recognition that some risks and imperfections are part of authentic living and growth?
This symbolizes innocence and the desire to stay young and live in an unchanging world.
What is the Carrousel, a ride at the Central Park Zoo that Phoebe goes on while Holden watches?
This is the name of he author of the quote that Mr. Antolini gave Holden "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 Wilhelm Stekel?
The whole novel is told in a specific literary device (not flashback or pov)
What is stream of consciousness?
There is _______ or more than one interpretation in the ending. Holden’s path is up to him.
What is Ambiguity?