Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger

“Breakdown on Fifth Avenue”  Salinger started this story as a short story and later turned it into a novel  Chapter 25

Fifth Avenue

Point of View  1 st Person (naïve) Direct Address  “If you really want to hear about it…” Flashback  Holden tells about the day he left Pencey Prep just before Christmas break Digression  Reference to D.B. in Hollywood

Setting TThe novel is framed by the first and last chapters which are set somewhere in California during the 1950s AAgerstown, Pennsylvania Pencey Prep Boarding School VVarious places in NYC Grand Central Station Greenwich Village Radio City Music Hall Central Park

“Oh, the places you’ll go…”

Plot  Quest (journey) motif Actual journey Metaphorical journey

Structure Picaresque (rogue) Framework EEscapades of the hero Holden and his misadventures RRealistic NYC is accurately represented NYC is a metaphor for the commercial world which is devoid of feelings SSatiric Holden’s loss of human connectedness He cannot connect to Jane because the “phone didn’t answer” bookends

Salinger’s Technique and Style  First Person Narration  Flashback  Holden’s memory of situations  Sarcasm  Humor

Conflicts  External Man vs Man Man vs Society Man vs Nature  Internal Man vs Himself UUltimate Conflict HHolden’s external conflicts meet his internal conflict

Protagonist and Antagonist HHolden Caulfield 16 years old Troubled Values: HHonesty FFriendship CCompliments NNeatness DDown to earth people MManners RRespect UUsefulness GGetting things we really need Does Not Value: MMoney SSuperficiality FFakeness HHolden Caulfield Holden is unable to fit into society and is at odds with DDifferent Characters SSocial Situations EEducational Environments TTechnology tthe World in general

Chapters 1-3  Holden/expelled/Pencey Prep now 17/16 when action takes place  D.B./Hollywood/prostitute  Fencing Team/foils/subway  Spencer/history essay/crud/sarcastic/ cover up lack of knowledge/Spencer reads/to shock Holden  English/passed  NYC/red hunting cap  Ackley/roommate/annoying/lonely/dirty/ intrusive

Chapters 4-6  Stradlater/ladies’ man/thinks highly of himself/player  Jane Gallagher/Holden/Stradlater  Stradlater/favor/Holden agrees  Allie/Holden/death/composition/base- ball glove/poems  Holden/fight Stradlater/Jane/ protection

Chapters 7-11  Holden/decision/NCY  Holden/train/Ernie Morrow/lie  Penn Station/call  Holden/cabbie/ducks  Hotel/perversions  Faith Cavendish/companionship  Phoebe/Holden’s relationship  Phoebe/Allie’s relationship “She killed Allie, too” (68).  Holden/3 girls/movie stars  Jane/kiss/stepfather

Chapters  Ernie’s/depression/Ernie’s piano playing/people clap  Holden/cabbie/ducks/fish Holden/fear/change  Holden/drunk/Lillian Simmons  Holden/”yellow”/virgin/Sunny/talk/ operation Human companionship Adult situations  Holden/religion/parents  Maurice/$5.00/cries/Holden insults Maurice  Holden/the movies Reality  Holden/suicide/”rubbernecking”

Chapters  Sally/phony  Holden/parent’s finances  Holden/nuns/Dick Slagle/suitcases Compassion/respect  Money “making you blue”  Holden/walking/kid singing  Phoebe/Little Shirley Beans  Jane/phone/Mom  Museum of Natural History

Chapters  Sally/good looking/Holden phony/run away/”pain in the ass”/yelling (doesn’t know it) “break down”  Phone calls/Jane/Carl Luce/Wicker Bar 3 people in phone book (Jane, dad’s work, teacher)  Movies/crying woman  Atomic bomb/war

Chapters  Wicker Bar/Luce (Whooten School)/sex/psychiatrist Adult situations  Phone/Sally Hayes/hangs up  Central Park/ducks/Phoebe’s record/ Allie’s funeral/Holden’s death/ Holden’s hand  “All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to” (158).  Holden/home/DB’s room/Phoebe and record  Phoebe/Holden like?/why?  James Castle/Elkton/suicide/Mr. Antolini  Holden/catcher in the rye/innocence  Holden/Phoebe dancing/money/red hunting cap

Chapters  Mr. Antolini/”headed for a fall”/pat on the head  Kinsella/oral expression/digression  Grand Central Station/psychological and physical symptoms/street/Allie “Don’t let me disappear.”  Holden/deaf-mute  Holden/Phoebe’s school/”FUs”/his tombstone Can’t get rid of all the “FUs” in the world  Phoebe/suitcase/red hunting cap  Play Benedict Arnold  Carrousel/Phoebe Permanent (round and round, same song)  Holden/rest home ”Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

Comin thro’ the Rye by Robert Burns Chorus O, Jenny’s a’weet, poor body, Jenny’s seldom dry: She draigl’t a’ her petticoatie, Coming thro’ the rye! I Coming thro’ the rye, poor body. Coming thro’ the rye, She draigl’t a’ her petticoatie, Coming thro’ the rye! II Gin a body meet a body Coming thro’ the rye. Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry? III Gin a body meet a body Coming thro’ the glen. Gin a body kiss a body, Need a warld ken? Chorus O, Jenny’s a’weet, poor body, Jenny’s seldom dry: She draigl’t a’ her petticoatie, Coming thro’ the rye!