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Holden
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16-year-old who narrates the story and this point of view
Who is Holden and first person narrator.
100
Belonged to Allie and had poems written on it
What is baseball mitt?
100
The gift that Holden buys for Phoebe, but breaks it when he's drunk
What is a record?
100
After being questioned by Phoebe, Holden says that this is the only thing he likes.
Who is Allie?
100
Holden did this to illustrate how he felt after Allie's death.
What is punch in a window?
200
Holden took this date to the show with the Lunts
Who is Sally?
200
What does Holden worry in the winter and what do they symbolize?
What is the ducks in the pond and the change of growing up (the need to adapt to change).
200
Holden gives these people $10 because he feels they need it
Who are the nuns?
200
Holden calls many people (including Sally, Stradlater, actors, etc.) this throughout the book
What is a phony?
200
Holden feels bad about taking this from Phoebe.
What is Phoebe's Christmas money?
300
The boy who jumped out the window rather than take back what he said about someone
Who is James Castle?
300
Holden used to go here as a kid for school and now Phoebe goes there
What is the Museum of Natural History? Symbolizes constancy.
300
Holden swears a lot throughout the novel to seem
What is older?
300
Holden feels happy at the end as he watches Phoebe do this.
What is ride the carousel?
300
Holden gets punched for calling Stradlater this.
What is a moron?
400
The Columbia student who advises Holden to see a psychoanalyst
Who is Carl Luce?
400
Where Holden takes Phoebe at the end of the book before he gets sick
What is the carousel?
400
Holden argues with her because he refuses to let her go away with him
Who is Phoebe?
400
Holden gives the impression that he feels a lingering sense of loss over this person's death
Who is Allie?
400
Holden lends this to James Castle.
What is his turtleneck sweater?
500
Holden meets this woman on the train.
Who is Mrs. Moore?
500
Holden wants to be this after hearing a little boy singing a song.
What is "The Catcher in the Rye?" Symbolizes the preservation of innocence.
500
The place where Holden stays in New York after leaving Pencey
What is the Edmont Hotel?
500
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?
500
Holden writes Stradlater's essay on this.
What is Allie's baseball glove?