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 FACTS :

Full title : the catcher in the

rye
¥ Author :
J.D .

Sullinger
type of work : Novel

Genre : Realism , Satire

Language English :

Time and
place written : Late 1940s NewYork

themes :
Alienation as a
form of self -

protection ;
the painfulness of
growing up .
 characters :

Holden Caulfield
the novel
The and narrator of
protagonist
.

lbyo junior who

just got expelled
from a school called Pencey ,

because of failing all

subjects
except english .

Despite intelligent
being
a
very
and sensitive he narrates
person ,
the
story in a
cynical and

jaded
( Holden
(bored ,
tired , without enthusiasm )
longs for peace ]
He is critical about the world
and
very
adult
life however he still
wants
,
to
be
perceived as a

grown up which is kinda

hypocritical of him .

I think that
Holden is
and an introvert He
very lonely
.

mostly
avoids people
he
but
deep down
longs for someone to
trust He can't handle
change
.

He all
.

ignores the rules .

 boys
Ackley
Ackley is Holden 's next door
in his dorm at
neighbor
Pencey prep .

Ackley is a

with terrible
very insecure person
dental
hygiene .

He often barges into Holden 's

room uninvited and acts
completely
oblivious to Holden 's hints and
allusions that he should leave .

Holden believes
lies
Ackley makes up .

about his sexual experiences

stradlater
Holder 's roommate He
.
is handsome
self satisfied and popular but
,

Holden calls
,

him a
"
secrets / ob !
Because
aopeors well
his toiletries groomed ,
but
(such his
as razor )
disgustingly
are
unclean .
 girls
Jane Gallagher
lot of
A girl whom Holden spent a

time
during one summer , when their
families
stayed in
neighboring
Summer
houses in Maine .

June never

actually appears in the book but

she
,
is an
extremely important person
to Holden because she
,
is one
of
the few whom
girls he both
respects and finds attractive .

Sally Hayes
A attractive whom Holden
very girl
has known and dated for a
longtime .

Though Sally is well read ,

Holden claims
she "
stupid
"
is

she in
is ore well mannered than Holden
 siblings

Phoebe Caulfield
Phoebe is Holden 's 10 yo sister , whom he

really cares about and loves

Although the age gap
.

of 6
years ,

she listens to what Holden and

says
Understands him more other people
than
.

Phoebe is intelligent ,
neat and a talented
dancer Her
.

childish innocence is Holden's

only consistent source
of happiness
throughout the novel
At times she seems even more
mature than Holder and scolds him
for his immaturity .
Like Mr Antonini
.

Phoebe to that
Holden
seems
recognize
is his own worst
enemy
Allie Caulfield
Holden 's brother who died of
Leukemia younger
3
years before the start of
the Novel Allie was .

brilliant, friendly
a
red-headed
boy
Holden according
-

to
he was the smartest of the Caulfield
Holden
.

is tormented death
and by his

carries around a baseball

glove on which Allie used to

write poems in ink

green .

D. B
Caulfield
Holden 's older brother D. B wrote a volume
of short stories that Holden admires , but
feels his talent in Hollywood
like D. B. is
wasting
.
 others
Carl Luce
A student at Colombia who was Holden 's
student advisor at the Wharton School .

Luce is three older

years than Holden
and has
great
a
deal of sexual
experience
Mr Antolin
.

Holden 's
former English
teacher at the
Elkton Hills School Mr Antolin i now
teaches
.

at
NYU He is
clever ,
.

young
sympathetic and likable and Holden
,

respects him Holder sometimes finds him

.

a bit too clever but he looks to him

for ,

guidance . Like
many characters in
the novel he
drinks
Mr heavily .

Spencer
Holden 's teacher
history at
Pencey prep ,
who

Holder
unsuccessfully tries to shake
out
of his academic
Maurice
apathy .

the elevator
Hotel
operator at the Edmont
who
, procures ( obtains ) a
prostitute
for Holden .

Sunny
The prostitute whom Holder hires
Maurice She is
through
one of number of
.

a
women with whom
Holden
to connect clumsily attempts
 Side characters

3 ladies which Holder

from Washington ,

met in the Lavender room in the

Edmont Hotel NYC
in .
then danced with .

2 nuns Holder met in a

cafe ?
As later Holden mentions it while
talking with Phoebe
,
they were
one
of the two
liked
lot
things Holden
a
He
gave them 10$
.

and had a
with nice
them conversation
.

Some kid 's

mom which Holder met
on the train
'
and told
lies
about some
her to
son .