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THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
INTRO NOTES
J.D. SALINGER
• PUBLISHED NOVEL IN 1951
• WELL KNOWN AUTHOR AND RECLUSE
• WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE
• NOVEL NEVER WAS, AND NEVER WILL BE, ADAPTED INTO A MOVIE
PLOT
• SET IN THE 1950S
• NARRATOR—HOLDEN CAULFIELD
• TELLING THE STORY AFTER THE FACT—METANARRATIVE
• WHAT IS HIS DEAL?
• WHY IS HE TELLING HIS STORY?
• WHERE IS HE?
• NO SPECIFIC LOCATION
CHARACTERS• HOLDEN
• HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR
• 17 YEARS OLD
• EXPELLED FROM PENCEY PREP
• CYNICAL
• ACKLEY
• NEIGHBOR
• BAD COMPLEXION AND POOR HYGIENE
• TYPICAL ANNOYING NEIGHBOR
• DOESN’T UNDERSTAND CONTEXT
CHARACTERS• STRADLATER
• ROOMMATE
• GOOD LOOKING, POPULAR
• TOGETHER
• JANE
• FEMALE FRIEND
• VERY IMPORTANT TO HOLDEN
• NEVER ACTUALLY APPEARS IN THE NOVEL
• SALLY
• HOLDEN’S SOMETIMES GIRLFRIEND
FAMILY• PHOEBE
• TEN YEAR OLD SISTER
• OPPOSITE OF HOLDEN IN ALMOST EVERY WAY
• RED HAIR
• D.B.
• OLDER BROTHER
• SUCCESSFUL WRITER WHO LIVES IN HOLLYWOOD
• ADMIRED BY HOLDEN—SORT OF
• ALLIE
• YOUNGER BROTHER
• DIED OF LEUKEMIA THREE YEARS BEFORE THE NOVEL
THEMES
• ALIENATION
• LONELINESS
• PHONINESS OF ADULTS
• BILDUNGSROMAN
SYMBOLS
• TITLE OF THE NOVEL
• RED HUNTING HAT
• HISTORY MUSEUM
• DUCKS IN CENTRAL PARK