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catcher and the rye
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The protagonist and narrator of the novel,He is a sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled for academic failure from a school called Pencey Prep.he is intelligent and sensitive,He finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost u | holden caulfield |
| Holden’s next-door neighbor in his dorm at Pencey Prep.He is a pimply, insecure boy with terrible dental hygiene. He often barges into Holden’s room and acts completely oblivious to Holden’s hints that he should leave.Lies about sex | Ackely |
| Holden’s roommate at Pencey Prep. is handsome, self-satisfied, and popular, but Holden calls him a “secret slob,” because he appears well groomed, but his razor, are disgustingly unclean. He is sexually active and quite experienced | Stradlater |
| A girl with whom Holden spent a lot of time one summer, when their families stayed in neighboring summer houses in Maine. She never actually appears, but she is extremely important to Holden,she is one of the few girls whom he both respects and finds attr | JAne GAllagher |
| Phoebe is Holden’s ten-year-old sister, whom he loves dearly. She is 10 she listens to what he says and understands him more than others.She is intelligent, neat, and a wonderful dancer, and her childish innocence is one of Holden’s only consistent source | Phoebe |
| Holden’s younger brother. Hedies of leukemia three years before the start of the novel. He was a brilliant, friendly,ginger boy—he was the smartest of the Caulfields. Holden is tormented by his death and carries around a baseball glove on which he used to | Allie Caulfiels |
| Holden’s older brother. D. B. wrote a volume of short stories that Holden admires very much, but Holden feels that D. B. prostitutes his talents by writing for Hollywood movies. | D.B. Caulfield |
| A very attractive girl whom Holden has known and dated for a long time.She is certainly more conventional than Holden in her tastes and manners. | sally hayes |
| Holden’s history teacher at Pencey Prep, who unsuccessfully tries to shake Holden out of his academic apathy. | mr. spencer |
| student at Columbia who was Holden’s student advisor at the Whooton School. He is three years older than Holden and has a great deal of sexual experience. At Whooton, he was a source of knowledge about sex for the younger boys | carl luce |
| Holden’s former English teacher at the Elkton Hills School. He is young, clever, sympathetic, and likable, and Holden respects him. Holden sometimes finds him a bit too clever, but he looks to him for guidance.he drinks heavily. | mr. antolini |
| The elevator operator at the Edmont Hotel, who procures a prostitute for Holden. | maurice |
| The prostitute whom Holden hires through Maurice. She is one of a number of women in the book with whom Holden clumsily attempts to connect. | sunny |
| fictional charcter that phoebe writes about | hazel weatherfield |
| who is phoebe in the play | benedict arnold |
| what does phoebe rrepeated say when holden and her are talking in the room | daddy is going to kill you |
| a boy he knew at Elkton Hills School who jumped out of a window to his death while being tormented by other boys | james castle |
| what does holden really want to do | be a catcher in the rye |
| who is the author of coming thro the rye | robert burns |
| what does phoebe give holden | her christmas money |
| what does holden give phoebe | his red hunting hat |
| what is the poem about by robert burns | the song is about a woman who has gotten her clothes wet while she was out in a rye field |
| what does holden want to do in life. he thinks of this while pretending to never be able to make it to the other side of the street | . He imagines living as a hermit, never talking to anybody, and marrying a deaf-mute girl. |
| what makes him really depressed on the school wall | f*** you |
| what does phoebe arrive at the muesem with | a suitcase |
| where are they when They have reconciled, he is wearing his red hunting hat, and suddenly he feels so happy he thinks he might cry. | the carosel |
| what does holden plan to do in the fall | go to school and apply himself |
| who visits him at physo insitute | DB |
| what was the record that holden bought for caulfield | liitle shirley beans |
| tells narrator what happened and he tells how he feels about it | retrospective |
| how many days does the novel take place | 3 |
| who wrote catcher in the rye | jd salinger |
| where does most of book take place | new york |
| what school did holden last get kicked out of | pency |
| what town and state is pency in | agerstown, PA |
| where does he tell the story from | mental institution in California |
| 5 traits of Holden | exaggerates sensitive non-conformist honest moody |
| name of three toursists | bernice, laverne, marty |
| where are tourists from | seattle, Washington |
| used at the beginning and end of a work to hold it together | frame |
| moving from childhood to adulthood | coming of age |
| symbol for rain | cleanse, rebirth |
| an outsider who is often high principled and who seeks to uphold values that most society ignores | anti-hero |
| who is the reason he changes | phoebe |
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