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Characters
Symbols
Actions
Feelings
Trivia
100
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
When Holden learns that Stradlater is on a date with Jane, he acts _______________, but he really feels _________________.
What is indifferent and jealous?
100
What is Allie's mitt symbolic of?
The past, youth, innocence.
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 lagoon and the change of growing up (the need to adapt to change).
200
Holden gives these people $10 because he feels they need it
What is the nuns?
200
Holden calls many people (including Sally, Stradlater, actors, etc.) this throughout the book
What is phony?
200
What was ironic about Holden wanting to be a "catcher in the rye"?
What is the fact that Holden is about to fall off a figurative cliff himself! He's alone. He was kicked out of three boarding schools. He's severely depressed and lonely.
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
Reason why Holden leaves the Antolini apartment.
What is waking up to see Mr. Antolini petting his head.
300
Holden feels happy at the end as he watches Phoebe.
What is ride the carousel?
300
bored with life; indifferent.
What is blasé?
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
lonely, depressed, considerate, foolish, dishonest
What are Holden's character traits?
500
Women whom Holden tries to make a date with when he gets to New York
Who is Faith Cavendish?
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 goes 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
State a theme from The Catcher in the Rye and discuss two events in the novel that support that theme.
(Refer to Ms. Hudgins)