Characters
This 16-year-old narrator and protagonist has just been expelled from Pencey Prep and often calls people “phony.”
Who is Holden Caulfield?
Holden writes a composition for Stradlater about this topic.
What is Allie's baseball glove?
This is the name of the school Holden is being kicked out of.
What is Pency Prep?
Name one person Holden invited to have a drink with him.
The taxi driver,
This good-looking roommate of Holden’s goes on a date with Jane Gallagher, upsetting Holden.
Who is Stradlater?
Holden was the team manager of this sport.
What is fencing?
Holden says this location smells like Vicks Nose Drops.
What is Mr. Spencer's house?
Holden met this important character after their dog relieved itself on his lawn.
Who is Jane?
Holden speaks fondly of this girl he used to play checkers with and clearly still cares about.
Who is Jane Gallagher?
Holden leaves Pencey and goes to this city by himself.
What is New York?
D.B. sold out and moved to this city.
What is Hollywood?
When arriving in New York, Holden initially tells the cab driver to go to this place.
Where is his home?
Holden visits this teacher to say goodbye.
Who is Mr. Spencer?
On the train to New York, Holden gives Mrs. Morrow this fake name and praises her son, even though he dislikes him.
What is “Rudolf Schmidt”?
Holden visits this nightclub in New York.
What is the Lavender Room?
Three people Holden has thought about calling and decided not to.
Sally, Jane, Phoeby, Carl
Holden meets this student's mother on the train.
Who is Earnest Morrow?
Holden's parents want to have him psychoanalyzed for doing this.
What is punching out the windows in the garage after Allie's death?
Holden is at this location when he begins to tell his story.
What is a mental hospital in California?
Holden questions the Taxi driver about this topic.
Where do the ducks go?