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- 1. Genna Greco Period 3 Catcher In the Rye Study Guide 1. I don’t feel he should be where he is because he seems relatively normal, but not as normal as everyone else. 2. Holden thinks it is a “terrible” school and “phony”, but oddly respects the academic standards. 3. Holden liked Selma Thurmer because she’s not a “phony” and doesn’t care about what a powerful guy her father, the headmaster, is. 4. Holdens visit to Old Spencer causes him to think twice about leaving the school and he grills him about his future. He regrets the visit when he enters the room and sees the intensity of the sickness. 5. Holden reacts by leaving because he did not want to be lectured. 6. Holden writes without restraint, saying whatever he please, yet talks without letting everything that he’s feeling out. 7. He is worried about where the ducks will go in the winter, much like his worries about his own future. 8. Holden lies to both the people in the story and himself. For instance, when he lies to Ackley about the fight with Stradlater and when he lies to Old Spencer about his reason for leaving. 9. Ackley and his constant barging in to his room annoy Holden. At times, he is also disgusted by his behavior. 10.Holden asks these questions because he is taking out Jane, a girl Holden has previously had a crush on. 11.The mitt is important because Allie used to write poems on it and he died several years before. 12.Allie wrote poems in green ink on the mitt so he would have something to read when he was bored in the field. 13.Holden reacted badly to Allies death by sleeping in the garage the night Allie died and punching out all the windows. 14.Stradlater tells him he made Jane late for her curfew and acts arrogantly when Holden asks about the date, making Holden angry and causing him to pick a fight. 15.Holden tells Ackley he fought with Stradlater because Stradlater was saying rude things about Ackley so he stuck up for him. 16.Holden tells the mother of his classmate that his name is Rudolph Schmidtt and brags about how modest and popular her son is. Holden said he was leaving the school for surgery on a brain tumor instead of telling her he got kicked out.
- 2. 17.Instead of calling Jane Gallagher, Holden eventually calls Faith Cavendish, a girl who he got the number of from a friend at a party. He calls her because he is feeling “pretty horny” and she is supposedly a good time. 18.No, he is not as mature and sophisticated as he thinks he is because he is continuously lying and acting otherwise. 19.No, he lies to her and says he only wanted to go for a drink but could only see her right then and not any other day. 20.Yes, they can both be true because one statement is just thinking about the idea of sex in his mind and the other actually comprehends the action of it. 21.He finds himself attracted to Bernice, the blond one, because he thought she was an amazing dancer and the best looking out of her other two friends. 22.To upset the three girls, Holden keeps claiming he is seeing movie stars so they get all worked up, even though none are there. 23.Some things Holden liked about Jane were that she kept all her kings in the back row in chess, he way her mouth moves when she talks, and how she put her hand on the back of his neck when they went to the movies. 24.Yes, I do think she is a realistic character by the way Holden portrays her and her actions to us. 25.Holden begins to discuss the topic of where the ducks in the lagoon go in the wintertime with the cab driver. 26.Holden feels that there is something phony about the way that Ernie plays and believes that since he is such a big shot, he has too much arrogance to be admired. Holden is scrambling skill and arrogance together. 27.I do believe that he applies this attitude to most adults. 28.Holden runs from Lillian Simmons because he felt that she was being phony and probably just wanted to check up on his older brother whom she used to see. 29.Holden feels he would go right up to the guy and claim that he stole his gloves and when he denied it, he would walk right into the closet and take them back. He then digresses on the topic of getting in a fistfight. 30.He really just ignores the fact that someone stole his gloves and leaves the matter alone. 31.Holden feels like a coward for leaving Ernie’s and decides to walk all the way home. 32.Maurice suggests that Holden have a prostitute he knows sent up to his room. 33.Holden lies to her when she comes into the room and said he recently had surgery so he’d prefer to just talk rather than do anything. 34.Her name is Sunny and it does not suit her because she has an attitude and is not a very happy girl. 35.Holden copes with the guilt about Allie by thinking about a time in the past where his brother wanted to tag along with him and his friend and changing it by imagining that he actually let him come.
- 3. 36.Holden feels that the Disciples were useless and believes religion is phony. 37.Holden says that ministers seem very phony when they talk using a different voice than usual. 38.When the two arrive, Holden refuses to pay them the extra 5 dollars and eventually Maurice hits him and they take his money. 39.Holden meets two nuns visiting in the area who he gives money to. 40.The little boy was singing “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.” 41.Holden bought Phoebe the record “Little Shirley Beans” because he thought she would appreciate it. 42.It seems as though he starts off the time with Sally as having a good time but as it progresses he begins to get irritated by her actions and stops enjoying the date. 43.He sees the movies as phony, seeing the emptiness and shallowness of them. He is not opposed to going to the movies, though. 44.Carl Luce used to say he knew who all the “flits and lesbians” were, just by looking at them. Luce then suggests that Holden needs psychoanalysis, considering his father is a psychoanalyst. 45.Phoebe puts the pieces of the broken record in her drawer of her night table and saves them for Holden. 46.Phoebe got angry and upset when she learnt he was kicked out and mentioned how angry their father would be when he learnt this. 47.James Castle was a student that Holden went to school with who called another boy a name and refused to take it back no matter what the boy or his friends did to him. He eventually just jumped out of his window and killed himself. Mr. Antonelli carried James Castle’s body and covered it with his own jacket, making Holden respect him. 48.In response to Phoebes question, Holden says he likes Allie and sitting there talking to her. 49.Phoebe says that he’s dead, reminding him of something he is already aware of and begins to say that if someone’s dead then its not really something you like. 50.Phoebe says that the lights were on because she couldn’t sleep and when the mother smelt the cigarette she said she lit one and took just one puff. Then, she asks the mother if Holden will be home Wednesday, to cover him. 51.Holden begins to hysterically cry when Phoebe gives him the Christmas money and then leaves to Mr. Antolini’s house for the night. 52.I think they got married because they are both “very intellectual” and got along well. Also, because Mrs. Antolini was said to be “lousy with dough” and Mr. Antolini is wealthy. 53.Holden woke up when he felt Mr. Antolinis hand petting his head. 54.Holden didn’t seem to be bothered by the Christmas preparations because he said walking down Fifth wasn’t too bad with all of the fake Santas and
- 4. Salvation Army bell ringers. When he sees the two men unloading the Christmas tree, all he does is laugh. 55.Every time he would step down, he felt as though he would never make it to the other side of the street and would keep going down and down until he just disappeared. 56.Holden began talking to “Allie”, saying things like “Please don’t let me disappear” and when he would reach the other side of the road he would thank him. 57.Holden gets angry when he sees the obscenities written on the walls of the school and tries his best to get rid of all of them because he didn’t want it to corrupt the children’s minds. 58.I feel as though Holden has matured slightly throughout the novel and I think at the end he finally started to realize that he was just as phony as he said all the others were. I think that Holden wanted people to believe that was really mature when in fact he was a scared kid and by the end of the book he's finally able to admit it. 59.Yes, because I think Holden ended the story where he was at his happiest.