CHAPTER NINE REVIEW

Date 03/05/2024
Name of Reviewer Juan Benavides
Title Catcher in the Rye
Author J.D. Salinger
Genre Novel, Coming-Of-Age, Realism
New vocabulary (6) with definition:
Grief – Emotion usually caused by someone’s death.
Desperate – Big urge to do something.
Self-Deprecating – Mocking of oneself.
Anxious – Feeling worried or uneasy.
Ambivalent – Having mixed feelings.
Erratic – Being unpredictable or inconsistent.

A brief summary
He spends the day mostly indoors watching movies and
hiding in his thoughts. He buys a record of his
deceased brother’s, Allie’s, favorite song “Little
Shirley Beans”, making evident his grief. As the day
continues, his loneliness and grief intensifies, leading
him to call Sunny, one of his former classmates,
arranging to meet her later that evening, hoping to
avoid isolation.