Kucaj/ Rybicki
English 10
The Catcher in the Rye – Quotations/Scenes of Importance
Ch. 1 –
1.
Location a.
“I got pretty run down and had to come out here and take it easy.” (1) b.
“…and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I’m pretty healthy, though.” (5)
2.
3.
Fencing Team
4.
“She liked me. At least I think she did.” (6)
Ch. 2 –
1.
D.B.
“I used to think about Old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too much, you wondered what the heck he was living
Ch. 5 –
1.
Saturday night steak dinners (35)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Ch. 6 –
1.
2.
Inviting Ackley to movies (36)
Holden’s snowball (36)
Allie Caulfield (38)
Holden deals with death (39)
Holden’s likes/ “I sort of liked writing about it.” (39)
“Some things are hard to remember.” (40)
Holden and Stradlater’s fight
3.
Hunting Hat (45)
Ch. 7 – for.” (6)
2.
Holden’s thoughts vs. his actions
3.
“I have a lousy vocabulary.” (9)
4.
“I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen.” (9)
5.
Holden’s essay on Egyptians
6.
“I’d never yell ‘Good luck!’ at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.”
(16)
Ch. 3 –
1.
“I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw.”
(16)
2.
Red Hunting Hat
3.
“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.” (18)
4.
Robert Ackley
1.
2.
“ ‘What’s the routine on joining a monastery?’” (50)
Holden leaves Pencey/ cries (52)
Ch. 8 –
1.
Holden’s view of women (54)
2.
Mrs. Marrow
3.
Holden talks about Ernie (55)
4.
Holden’s “brain tumor” (58)
Ch. 9 –
1.
Phone booth (59)
2.
Cab ride/ ducks (60)
3.
Other hotel guests (62)
4.
Holden’s view of sex/women (62)
5.
Faith Canvedish
5.
“ ‘I shoot people in this hat.’” (22)
6.
Ward Stradlater
Ch. 4 –
1.
Secret slob
2.
Stradlater’s English composition
3.
Holden’s behavior in bathroom
4.
Jane Gallagher
Ch. 10 –
1.
Phoebe Caulfield
2.
Lavender Room
3.
Holden dances
4.
Holden’s view of women (73)
Ch. 11 –
1.
Kissing Jane Gallagher

Ch.12 –
1.
Horwitz/ ducks (81)
2.
Ernie’s (83)
3.
Lillian Simmons (86)
4.
“I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not glad at all I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say stuff like that, though.” (87)
Ch. 13 –
1.
Yellow/ fights (88)
2.
Elevator man Maurice (91)
3.
Rm. 1222 (91)
4.
“If you want to know the truth, I’m a virgin.
I really am.” (92)
5.
“The trouble with me is, I stop.” (92)
6.
Sunny
7.
Holden wants to talk
Ch. 14 –
1.
“what I did, I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie.” (98)
2.
“I’m sort of an atheist.” (99) Huck
3.
Run in with Maurice (100)
4.
He cries (103)
5.
Movie scenario (103)
Ch. 15 –
1.
Doesn’t really sleep
2.
Calls Sally Hayes (106)
3.
Grand Central Station (107)
4.
“The thing is, it’s really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.” (109)
5.
Sandwich Bar/ nuns (109)
6.
Holden’s opinions on Romeo and Juliet
(112)
7.
Holden’s view on religion (112)
Ch. 16 –
1.
Boy singing “If a body catch a body coming through the rye” (115)
2.
Holden buys Phoebe a record
3.
Hamlet (117)
4.
Girl in Central Park (119)
5.
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move” (121)
6.
Hunting Hat (122)
7.
Doesn’t go in the museum (122)
Ch. 17 –
1.
Holden’s views on guys (123)
2.
Sally Hayes (124)
3.
The Lunts
4.
Skating (129)
5.
Holden’s rant (130)
6.
“The terrible part, though, is that I meant it when I asked her. That’s the terrible part. I swear to god I’m a madman.” (134)
Ch. 18 –
1.
Phone booth (135)
2.
Jane Gallagher (136)
3.
Carl Luce (136)
4.
The Rockettes/ movies (137)
5.
Holden is an atheist (137)
6.
A Farewell to Arms & The Great Gatsby
7.
“I don’t think I could stand it if I had to go to war. I really couldn’t. It wouldn’t be too bad if they’d just take you out and shoot you or something, but you have to stay in the army so goddam long.” (140) “I’m sort of glad they’ve got the atomic bomb invented. If there’s ever another war, I’m going to sit right the hell on top of it. I’ll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”
(141)
Ch. 19 –
1.
The Wicker Bar (141)
2.
Holden being immature (142)
3.
Carl Luce suggests therapy (148)
4.
Holden cares about vocabulary (149)
Ch. 20 –
1.
Holden gets drunk (149)
2.
Holden’s movie scenario (150)
3.
Phone Booth calls Sally (150)
4.
Men’s room/ cries ( 153)
5.
Holden breaks record (154)
6.
In park, imagines getting pneumonia (155)
7.
Holden considers his own death (155)
Ch. 21 –
1.
Holden goes home
2.
“I just felt good, for a change.” (159)
3.
Phoebe Caulfield
Ch. 22 –
1.
One thing Holden likes: Two nuns/ Allie/ being with Phoebe (170)
2.
James Castle (170)
3.
Holden’s ideal occupation (173)

Ch. 23 –
1.
Leave Phoebe, cries (179)
2.
Holden gives Phoebe hunting hat (180)
Ch. 24 –
1.
Holden feels dizzy (181)
2.
Mr. and Mrs. Antolini’s
3.
Holden feels dizzy and has a headache
(183)
4.
Holden has a headache and a stomachache
(184)
5.
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.” (185)
6.
Holden still has a headache (186)
7.
“ ‘I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.’” (186)
8.
“ ‘ I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. But I don’t honestly know what kind.’” (186)
9.
“ ‘ I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.’” (188)
10.
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” 188
11.
Mr. Antolini’s speech (189)
12.
Holden is sleepy (190)
13.
Mr. Anotlini pats Holden’s head (191)
14.
Holden is sweating (193)
Ch. 25 –
1.
Holden has a headache (194)
2.
Holden rethinks what happened with Mr.
Antolini (194)
3.
Holden is cold (195)
4.
Holden wonders if he has lousy hormones or cancer (195)
5.
“It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.” (196)
6.
“I had this feeling that I’d never get to the other side of the street. I thought I’d just go down, down, down, and nobody’d ever see me again.” (197)
7.
Holden is sweating (198)
8.
Holden is talking to Allie (198)
9.
Holden’s future plans (198)
10.
Holden feels nauseas (201)
11.
“F*ck you” written on wall (202)
12.
Natural History Museum – Egyptian section
13.
Holden has diarrhea (204)
14.
Holden passes out (204)
15.
“The thing with kids is, if they want to graqb for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.” (211)
16.
Rain (212)
17.
Hunting hat (212)
18.
Holden is crying (213)
Ch. 26 –
1.
Holden got sick after
2.
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” (214)