1. Catcher in the Rye Eng 2 CP

2. The Mysterious J.D. Salinger ●●●● 1919: Born in NY 1951: Publishes his first novel, The Catcher in the Rye 1963: Publishes his last book 2010: Dies in Cornish, NH Published Books ● The Catcher in the Rye (1951) ● Nine Stories (1953) ● Franny and Zooey (1961) ● Raise High the Roof beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

3. Life and Times Age 23: Loses girlfriend Oona O’Neill (17) to Charlie Chaplin (54) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoKbDNY0Zwg Age 25: D-Day – 12 th Regiment suffers highest US casualty rate of WWII (63%) Age 26: Seeks girlfriend in Vienna after war, learns she died in con- centration camp; checks into hospital for PTS

4. Life and Times Age 31: First publisher rejects Catcher; published in 1951 Age 32: begins dating 16-year-old Claire Douglas; moves to NH Age 34: marries her Age 36: she leaves

5. Life and Times Age 41: Catcher hits #5 nine years after debuting at #4 Age 42: Time cover Age 61: Gives final interview and disappears into total reclusiveness

6. Lives out his life secluded on his 90-acre farm, subject to the intense curiosity of media and fans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f2uQidoc_g

7. From The New York Times, November 3, 1974: Did [Salinger] expect to publish another work soon? There was a pause. "I really don't know how soon," he said. There was another pause, and then Mr. Salinger began to talk rapidly about how much he was writing, long hours, every day, and he said he was under contract to no one for another book. "I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously," he said, "but I do like to write for myself. "I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work." "I just want all this to stop. It's intrusive. I've survived a lot of things," he said in what was to be the end of the conversation, "and I'll probably survive this."

8. On terminating his 38-year friendship with Michael Mitchell in 1985: Salinger maintained that his work—what he now dubbed “his assignment”—demanded sacrifices of his personal life he was powerless to deny. Intrusions into his world had thus far been a tribulation, he explained, yet he had somehow managed to continue writing despite them. Now he was following his fiction into new territory, an exploration that left him “unable to afford the marvelous distraction of first class friendship” (Slawenski, 388).

9. Why Do Assassins Love Catcher in the Rye? Mark David Chapman, who assassinated Beatle John Lennon, and John Hinckley, Jr., who shot President Reagan, both had the novel with them.

10. Mark David Chapman Chapman had travelled to New York from Hawaii to commit the murder. Once in the city, he had sought out a bookstore and purchased a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. He had read the novel many times before and had convinced himself he was the modern- day Holden Caulfield… when the police arrived to arrest Chapman, he was still reading placidly (Slawenski, 382). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnju2o0zu7k

11. The World Holden Rejects “Phoniness” at Pencey/Real World Ossenburger Memorial Wing: Holden rejects model of success – “He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business… He probably just shoves them in a sack and dumps them in the river” (16). Ed Banky’s Car: coach lends Stradlater his car to take out his dates; adult condones sexual conquest of young girls like Jane Steaks for dinner: a “fake” gesture for the parents; “conspicuous consumption”

12. What DOES Holden Value? Natural, Impulsive, Childlike Innocence Allie’s Glove: baseball, poems, games Snowball fight: “It was very childish, but everyone was really enjoying themselves” (35). Checkers, Canasta (games) Tap Dance routine

13. Physical Attraction/Desire as Disturbing Platonic Relationships “I damn near gave my kid sister Phoebe a buzz…You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole life” (66-67). “I got old Jane Gallagher on the brain again… I don’t mean it was anything physical or anything—it wasn’t—but we saw each other all the time” (76). Physical Attraction “I saw a man and woman squirting water out of their mouths at each other… The hotel was lousy with perverts… The trouble was, that sort of junk is sort of fascinating to watch, even if you don’t want it to be” (62). “The was sort of cute, the blonde one, and I started giving her the old eye a little bit…I started giving the three witches the eye again… they started giggling like morons” (70).

14. SpencerAckleyStradlater Mrs. Morrow Faith Cavendish BerniceHorowitz Lillian Simmons SunnyMauriceThe Nuns Sally Hayes LucePhoebeAntolini Holden’s Encounters

15. Holden Caulfield Broken Hand Rudolph Schmidt Brain Tumor Jim Steele Clavichord Operation Dickstein’s Nephew Bad Leg

16. Legion “If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones” (99). Holden is like Legion: a self-destructive masochist who is too tormented to sleep

17. The Museum of Natural History “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… You could go there a hundred thousand times… The only thing that would be different would be you” (121).

18. The Museum of Natural History “Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to just stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone” (122).

19. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away (13). The Ducks

20. Red Hunting Hat Holden’s split personality: Masks/hides him while at the same time draws attention

21. MAINE ● Allie’s death ●NY Edmont Hotel AGERSTOWN, PA ● Pencey ●HOLLYWOOD, CA D.B.’s Home

22. ●NY Edmont Hotel ●MAINE: Allie’s death/ Summers with Jane/Childhood CABIN IN MA OR VT: BACK TO SIMPLICITY

23. The City vs. The Woods The City “I hate living in New York and all. Taxicabs, and Madison Avenue buses, with the drivers and all always yelling at you… and going up and down in elevators when you just want to go outside… (130). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxy Xg&ob=av3n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxy Xg&ob=av3n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNi k&ob=av3e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNi k&ob=av3e The Woods “Tomorrow morning we could drive up to Massachusetts and Vermont… It’s beautiful as hell up there… We’ll stay in these cabin camps…we could live somewhere with a brook and all…I could chop all our own wood” (132).

24. “Take most people, they’re crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even newer…I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human for God’s sake.”

25. “Comin’ Through the Rye” Robert Burns O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body, Jenny's seldom dry: She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin thro' the rye! Comin thro' the rye, poor body, Comin thro' the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin thro' the rye! Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry? Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the glen, Gin a body kiss a body, Need the warl' ken? Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the grain; Gin a body kiss a body, The thing's a body's ain. Ev'ry Lassie has her laddie, Nane, they say, have I, Yet all the lads they smile on me, When comin' thro' the rye.

26. “The Catcher in the Rye” Holden’s dream to be “the catcher in the rye” reveals his wish to preserve the innocence and tranquility of childhood; to protect kids like Castle, Allie, or Jane who suffer falls of some kind His wish reveals how unrealistic he is, and how his vision is flawed: Phoebe corrects him about the lyrics of the poem, and the Rye is not a grain field but a river—the poem is not about staying young but growing up

27. What Happened with Antolini? “How’re all your women?” “I don’t know what the hell we’re going to do with those legs of yours.” “All right. Goodnight, handsome.” “I got in bed with just my shorts on.” “And what he was doing was… petting me or patting me on the goddam head.” “That kind of stuff’s happened to me about twenty times since I was a kid.” Pages 190-193

28. The Carrousel A symbol of youth; goes in circles without moving forward “That’s one nice thing about carrousels, they always play the same songs… I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way Old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling…” (213).

29. William Faulkner on Holden “His tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race, there was no human race there.”