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Catcher in the Rye

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

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Catcher in the Rye

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  1. Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger

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

  3. Fifth Avenue

  4. Point of View • 1st 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

  5. Setting • The novel is framedby the first and last chapters which are set somewhere in California during the 1950s • Agerstown, Pennsylvania • Pencey Prep Boarding School • Various places in NYC • Grand Central Station • Greenwich Village • Radio City Music Hall • Central Park

  6. “Oh, the places you’ll go…”

  7. “Oh, the places you’ll go…”

  8. Plot • Quest (journey) motif • Actual journey • Metaphorical journey

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

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

  11. External Man vs Man Man vs Society Man vs Nature Internal Man vs Himself Conflicts • Ultimate Conflict • Holden’s external conflicts meet his internal conflict

  12. Holden Caulfield 16 years old Troubled Values: Honesty Friendship Compliments Neatness Down to earth people Manners Respect Usefulness Getting things we really need Does Not Value: Money Superficiality Fakeness Holden Caulfield Holden is unable to fit into society and is at odds with Different Characters Social Situations Educational Environments Technology the World in general Protagonist and Antagonist

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Chapters 12-14 • 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”

  17. Chapters 15-16 • 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

  18. Chapters 17-18 • 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

  19. Chapters 19-23 • 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

  20. Chapters 24-26 • 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.”

  21. 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! Comin thro’ the Ryeby Robert Burns Allusion

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