Character
Events
Places
Symbolism
Phony Stuff
100
This character suffered from halitosis and pimples. Holden makes fun of him a lot for qualities he shares.
Who is Ackley?
100
Holden go here when he leaves Pencey.
What is New York?
100
The school does Holden get kicked out of.
What is Pencey?
100
This belonged to Allie and had poems written in green ink on it.
What is a baseball glove?
100
He wrote The Catcher In The Rye.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
200
The friend whom Holden doesn't trust Stradlater with?
Who is Jane?
200
Holden gets into a physical fight with this person.
Who is Stradlater?
200
The current Holden, who is telling the story at age 17, is here.
What is at a hospital in California ?
200
Holden repeatedly asks himself and others this questions while wandering around New York.
What is "Where do the ducks go in the winter?"?
200
Holden gives this to Phoebe to comfort her.
What is his red hunting hat?
300
Holden's brother that is dead.
Who is Allie?
300
Holden does this on the night that Allie died.
What is break the car windows?
300
This is "the best place" because "everything always stayed right where it was".
What is the Museum of Natural History?
300
Holden takes Phoebe here at the end of the book before he gets sick.
What is to the Carousel?
300
Holden pretends to be older when speaking with her on the train.
Who is Mrs. Morrow?
400
Holden gets upset when he reads Holden's essay allowed. It really "grippes" him!
Who is Old Mr. Spencer?
400
This person is at fault when the fencing foils were lost on the subway.
Who is certainly not Holden?
400
Holden gets annoyed at three girls who never seem to listen in this place.
What is The Lavender Room?
400
Holden misunderstands this line from Robert Burn's poem.
What is "if a body meet/catch a body"?
400
Phoebe's middle name. Real or Fake.
What is Josephine or Weatherfield?
500
The Columbia student who advises Holden to see a psychoanalyst. Holden's friend who continues to refer to him as immature.
Who is Carl Luce?
500
Holden dreams of having this job because it has a great significance to him.
What is to be the Catcher in the Rye so that he can prevent children from falling over the edge?
500
Holden thinks about his death after he has dunked his head in freezing water. He wanders around this place wet and cold as he has a gander at the surroundings.
What is Central Park?
500
The Cab driver tells Holden that it doesn't matter where the ducks go. Instead he says this.
What is that the fish "stay right where they are"?
500
Holden Caulfield was the narrator of this story, which was first published in 1945.
What is "I'm Crazy"?