The Catcher in the Rye

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The Catcher in the Rye
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Chapter 14

• Holden, Maurice, Sunny
• Refuses to pay Maurice more
• Doesnt want to be taken advantage of
• Holden willing to risk beating for the principle
  of the thing
• Fantasy about bullet wound
• Criticizes Sunny for her reliance on movies
  during day
• Loner-type personality
• Straight from Hollywood B movie

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Movies

• Sunny rebuked for going to movies
• Sally invited to a matinee

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Suitcases, Wealth, Relationships

• Suitcases ? convey wealth status
• Suitcases ? can come between people who might
  otherwise relate well to each other
• Doesnt sound logical that Dick Slagle
• Holden both asked to be moved on the
• basis of suitcases (excuse for trouble relating
  to
• someone)

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Catholics Suitcases

• Page 113
• People tend to like others who are similar to
  themselves
• Gets in the way of meaningful conversation
  human relationships

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Children Innocence

• Shirley Bean record for Phoebe
• 6-year-old boy (job innocence)
• Innocence untouched by ugly reality that he
  doesnt have

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Title of the Book

• Page 115
• Child singing song while walking in the street
  if a body catch a body coming through the rye

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Movies

• Sees sitting in theater as isolating act that
  separates people
• Sees movies as not real but phony

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Museum

• Realistic scenes of life that never change
• Holden knows people are always changing
• Holden concludes that certain things they should
  stay the way they are
• He realizes that it is impossible to alter change

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What Holden Hates

• Life in New York
• New cars
• Materialistic phonies
• Cliques
• Life in modern society
• Would like to run off to simpler life

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Holdens Behavior

• Holdens speech is wildly out of control
• Shouts doesnt realize it
• Jumps from one topic to another
• Asks Sally to marry him
• Screams, then whispers
• Sally cries, he laughs

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Im in lousy shape.

• Admits he is the one w/ the problem, not society
• Sally embodies phoniness which Holden hates
• She doesnt have any idea what his problem really
  is

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I swear to God Im a madman.

• Feels lonely, sad, confused, depressed,
  alienated, but not crazy
• Holden uses madman to describe how the snow
  fell, as well as how he apologized to Sally

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Againa Loner

• Boy Scouts ? one week
• Resented being part of group
• Resented submitting to regimentation

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Carl Luce

• Carl Luce
• Has changed
• Doesnt want to give sexual info
• Fed up w/ Holdens questions about sex

• Holden
• Hasnt changed
• Still wants to talk about sex
• Asks too many questions about it
• Wanted to have a slightly intellectual
  conversation but doesnt
• Hates to see Luce go

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Holdens Emotional Wound

• Holden pretending hes been shot in gut
• I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded
  sonuvabitch. (page 150)
• Emotional wounds

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Sally vs. Jane

• Sally
• Attractive
• Sexy
• Socially outgoing
• Phony
• Holden is attracted physically but repelled
  emotionally

• Jane
• Innocent
• Reserved
• May not be the person he knew since she dates
  Stradlater
• Holden is protective

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Going Home

• Holden goes home to Phoebe
• Shes upset because hes been kicked out of
  school again
• She knows their parents will be upset

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Pencey Prep

• Holdens feelings about Pencey Prep
• Cliquish school
• Hard on anyone who doesnt fit in
• Disillusionment with Mr. Spencer
• Would think Holden would feel pity, not distaste
  for Spencer when the teacher fawns over the
  headmaster

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You dont like anything

• Page 169

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Holdens Wish

• Page 173 Phoebes correction of song
• Holdens wish to be the catcher

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Phoebes Generosity

• Holden cries because Phoebe offers him her
  Christmas
• He almost feels unworthy of it

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Mr. Antolini

• Page 191-193
• Whats going on?
• Holdens admiration

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Obscenities on Wall

• At school ? something from outside world ruins
  peacefulness innocence
• Children ? leads to loss of innocence

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Carousel

• Transformation of Holden
• Depression ? Happiness
• Seeing Phoebe in her blue coat on carousel
• Drastic change may point to eventual breakdown

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Chapter 26

• Not a resolution
• Will he be better?
• Has he leared anything?