Symbols
These migrate when the pond freezes over and are a symbol for holdens growing up into adult hood.
What are Ducks
Holden frequently criticizes adults by calling them this, meaning fake or insincere.
What is phony
This character, Holden’s younger brother, died of leukemia, a loss that deeply affects Holden throughout the novel.
Who is Allie.
The one class Holden is passing at Pency Prep
What is English.
Holden pays sunny a certain amount after feeling like he didn't do enough to pay full price.
What is 5 dollars
Holden usually puts it on when he feels isolated/uncomfortable
What is Holdens Red Hunting Hat
Holden often ______ a lot
What are Smokes
What are Lies
The character who Holden is being related to constantly and who is a sellout in Hollywood
Who is D.B.
The game holden is watching in the beginning of the book while on the hill
What is the football game
Where does Holden stay in New York
What is the Edmont Hotel
Holden breaks this the night after Allie died.
What are windows?
A type of trait Holden often displays saying stuff like "I want to die"
What is Depressed
What is the name of the piano player at the club?
Who is Ernie.
Holden lets the fencing team down by doing this with their equipment, causing them to miss an important meet.
What is losing the fencing team's equipment on the subway?
This hotel employee arranges Holden’s encounter with the prostitute, Sunny, despite Holden’s mixed feelings about it.
Who is Maurice
The trait the Holden shows little by little throughout the novel giving a sense of hope for the reader.
What is change
Holdens Relationship with himself is
What is an inability to cope, running away from his mistakes, and avoiding the truth (Escapsim)
The student who gave Holden the number of Faith Cavendish was from this Ivy League university.
What is Princeton
Holden visits this teacher in Chapter 2, who is suffering from this illness, which adds to Holden’s feeling of disillusionment.
what is Grippe
Holden goes to this location in the hotel to drink after feeling lonely and disconnected from everyone around him.
What is the Lavender Room
What do Jane, Phobe and Allie represent for Holden
What is Innocence and Youth.
When Maurice demands more money for Sunny, Holden imagines himself in this dramatic, cinematic scenario, revealing his tendency to escape into fantasies of heroism.
What is getting shot in the stomach and pretending to have a bullet wound like in the movies?
Holdens idea of a prostitute
What is a "...Whory-looking blonde..."
Spencer's room smelt like?
What is Vicks Nose Drops.
After he leaves Ernie's how far does he walk
What is 41 blocks