Higgins/Kovacs
English III Honors
The Catcher in the Rye
Chapter 17
Sally. “I didn’t even like her much, yet all of a sudden I felt like I
was in love with her and wanted to marry her.”
Chapter 13
Ice skating at radio city.
Feeling “yellow.”
Begins to rant to Sally and starts to yell without realizing.
Holden is a virgin. Awkward with girls. “Accidentally” hires a
prostitute.
Plans to run away with her.
Jim Steele
“I swear to God, I’m a madman.”
Sunny takes off her dress and it’s depressing.
Chapter 18
Chapter 14
Smart girls say that big bastard guys have inferiority complexes
Depressed so he talks to Allie.
Show at Radio City. Feels sorry for the guy who practices to be a
good roller skater
Recalls his discussion with Arthur Childs about Jesus and the
Disciples.
“I said old Jesus probably would’ve puked if He could see it—all
those fancy costumes and all.”
Stands up to Maurice.
He and Allie loves the kettle drummer
Gets hit in the stomach and reenacts a “death scene”
Contemplates suicide.
Chapter 15
English movie about man who loses memory/People who cry at
movies are usually mean bastards at heart.
D.B. had been in the army/Cannot see how he would like A Farewell
to Arms
Calls Sally Hayes
Wants to ride the atomic bomb if there’s another war
Necking = intelligence?
Chapter 19
“Grand”
Meets Old Carl Luce at the Wicker Bar
Information about his parents. Shows concern about getting the ax
again.
“Flits”
Cheap suitcases & Slagle
Asks Luce about his sex life. Speaks loudly again.
Meets two nuns.
Asks Luce questions about relationships/”I can never get sexy –
really sexy – with a girl I don’t like a lot”
Glimpse into how well-read Holden really is.
Luce suggests a psychoanalyst—his father is one
More affected by Mercutio’s death than Romeo or Juliet.
Chapter 20
Feelings about money.
Gets really drunk and imagines that there is a bullet in his guts again.
Chapter 16
Calls Sally to tell her that he will come and decorate the tree
“Little Shirley Beans”
Family walking with the little boy whistling “If a body catch a body
coming through the rye.”
Goes to the park to try and find the ducks/ “lake is partly frozen and
partly not frozen”
Breaks Phoebe’s record, but he keeps the pieces
Wanting to go to the movies really depresses him.
“It didn’t seem at all like Christmas was coming soon. It didn’t seem
like anything was coming.”
Helps a little girl with her skate key.
“The museum.”
Wasn’t able to attend Allie’s funeral because “I had to go to the
hospital and all after I hurt my hand.”
Only good part about dying is mother would not let Phoebe come to
his funeral
Talks about the cemetery. People get to leave when it rains, but not
Allie.
Holden’s dislike of change.
Decides to go home to see Phoebe
Chapter 21
His mother is a light sleeper ever since Allie died. She never sleeps.
Likes the way that Phoebe—and all kids—looks when she’s sleeping
Looks through Phoebe’s notebook/ “Kids’ notebooks kill me”
Mr. Antolini tells Holden that he’s going to have a “terrible fall” and
his advice/ “the mark of the immature man…”
Holden wakes up to Mr. Antolini “patting or petting” his head
Chapter 25
Phoebe—“She’s very affectionate”
Begins to think that maybe he was wrong about Mr. Antolini
Phoebe very astute, realizes that Holden is not home on Wednesday.
Thinks he has cancer
Holden’s plan to run away to Colorado
Chapter 22
Feels like he’s disappointed Phoebe and explains to her why he hates
Pencey
Starts to think he’s disappearing as he’s crossing street. Asks Allie
for help/ “Allie, don’t let me disappear.”
Writes a note to Phoebe to tell her to meet him, and that he’s leaving
“You don’t like anything!”
Sees “Fuck You” written on the steps of Phoebe’s school/impossible
to rub out all of the “Fuck You”s in the world
Tells the story of James Castle
Innocence of the little kids with his pants open at the museum
The one thing he likes is Allie.
Sees “Fuck You” in the museum
Wants to be “The Catcher in the Rye”
Phoebe wants to go with Holden and get angry with him after he tells
her no
Chapter 23
Calls up Mr. Antolini. Mr. Antolini not much older than DB.
Covered up James Castle
“The thing with kids is, if they want to grab 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.”
Phoebe gives Holden her Christmas money/Holden gives Phoebe her
hat
Holden tells that he went home after carrousel/ “I felt so damn
happy”
Chapter 24
Chapter 26
Mr. Antolini “more witty than intellectual” like DB
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing
everybody.”
Holden’s explanation of his oral expression class and “digression”