Show:
Characters
Symbols
Actions
Feelings
Vocabulary
100
16-year-old who narrates the story
Who is Holden?
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 feels
What is jealous/mistrustful?
100
Rebellion against authority
What is mutiny?
200
Holden took this date to the show with the Lunts
Who is Sally?
200
Holden worries about where they go during the winter
What is the ducks in the lagoon?
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
In a state of foul decay or decomposition
What is putrid?
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?
300
Holden swears a lot throughout the novel to seem
What is older?
300
Holden feels happy at the end as he watches Phoebe
What is ride the carousel?
300
Not sanitary; unhealthy; tending to harbor or spread disease
What is unsanitary?
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
Tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing
What is provocative?
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 when he gets older
What is "The Catcher in the Rye?"
500
The place where Holden goes in New York after leaving Pencey
What is 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
The quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
What is humility?