Characters in the Catcher in the Rye.

Holden: a 16 year old kid who has not kicked out of school many different times. He believes that most of the people in the world are phonies. Holden has a mental breakdown but recovers from it.
Ackly: Holden's next door neighbor at Pency.
Stradlater: Holden's roommate at Pency and is with Jane.
Jane: A girl that used to be with Holden for a summer. Holden still thinks about her alot.
Pheobe: Holden's little sister. She is very intelligent and Holden likes her alot. She listens to everything he tell her. She is only 10 years old.
Allie: Younger brother of Holden who died of leukemia. He had a baseball glove with poems written on it.
Sally: A girl who dated Holden for a very long time.
D.B.: Holden's other brother who is in Hollywood with the phonies. D.B. is a writer and is making a movie.

Catcher in the Rye response 21-26

Holden is starting to turn his life around. He isn't as depressed anymore and wants to apply himself in school. Holden was in a very bad spot in his life and was maybe thinking of suicide. But when Phoebe gave him the hat back, he got happier. Phoebe may have saved his life.

Catcher in the Rye chapter 26

Holden ends the story not talking about what happened with him and Phoebe. He says that he got sick and went to a rest home. He says that he is going to go to school next fall and try to apply himself to his new school. He wishes that he didn't share everything about his life, because when he talks about his life and thinks about the people in his life.

Catcher in the Rye chapter 25

Holden goes to the Grand Central Station for the night and sleeps on a bench. Whenever he crosses the street and calls out to Allie to help him. He goes to Phoeb's school and leaves her a note to meet him at the museum. They meet and she asks if she can go with him out west. He says that she can't go with him. She gets mad and returns the hat he gave her. Then they go to the zoo, walking on opposite sides of the street, they look at some animals then go to the park. Holden sits on a bench and feels happy for once and is almost going to cry.

Catcher in the Rye chapter 24

Holden arrives at Mr. Antonili's house and he can tell that he has been drinking. Holden and Antonili start talking for a while. Mr. and Mrs. Antonili make a bed on the couch for Holden and he goes to sleep. He wakes up in the middle of the night and Mr. Antonili is sitting next to him rubbing his hair. Holden is creeped out and leaves quickly.

Catcher in the Rye chapter 23

Holden calls his old teacher and he tells him that he got kicked out of another school. The teacher said that he can stay at his place. Holden returns to Phoeb's room and asks her to dance, they hear the door open and holden hides in the closet and waits for his mother to leave after tucking Phoeb in for the night. He says goodbye and says he is going out west. Phoeb gives him all of her christmas money and he gives her his hat.

Catcher in the Rye chapter 22

Holden goes back to his sister, and she said that Holden hates everything. He starts to think of things and then he says that he likes Allie. She said that Allie is dead. Holden says he wants to be the "catcher in the rye" and catch kids before they fall off the edge of the cliff.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 21

Holden goes up to his parents apartment. He goes to D.B.'s room because Phoebe sleeps in there when he is gone. He wakes her up and she is very excited to see him but realizes that break isn't for another few days and asks him if he got kicked out, he says yes. She is angry and says that dad is going to kill him. He leaves to get some cigarettes.

Catcher in the Rye response 16-20

Holden's depression is starting to grow a lot. He gets drunk to try and overcome it, but that doesn't work. He starts asking random girls on dates even though the only girl that he likes is Jane. Loneliness is the theme for these chapters because he has no friends, but just wants to have the sense of belonging and he isn't able to find it.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 20

When luce left, Holden got very drunk and started to ask lots of women out on dates. All of which declined. He calls Jane and she is very angry at him because it is so late and he is drunk and calling. He goes to the park and drops Phoebe's record he bought for her. He is starting to freeze and is scared he is going to die. He thinks about how he missed Allie's funeral and how people put flowers on graves. Then he decides he wants to see Phoebe and goes home.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 19

Holden meets Luce at the Wicker Bar. Holden starts asking Luce all of these weird questions and Luce gets really annoyed by them and treats Holden poorly. Luce tells Holden that he needs to see a psychoanylist. Holden remembers that Luce's father is one of those and asks him if he ever got treated. Luce gets annoyed and leaves.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 18

Holden goes to a drug store and gets some food. He thinks about Jane again and decides to call her, but there was no answer. So he decides to call Carl Luce who went to one of the schools that he got kicked out of. He answers and they decide to get a drink together that night.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 17

Holden goes on his date with Sally. She was late as usual but looked great and he didn't care much. They go to see a play and during the break Sally is flirting with another guy there, who Holden thinks is a phony like the others that are at the play. Later they go ice-skating and then Holden gets anxious and tells Sally about this crazy plan of his to move to vermont and get married. He makes her get really mad and she starts crying. He leaves alone.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 16

Holden wants to see his sister Phoebe. He buys her a record then goes to the park to see if he can find her. He meets a little girl who knows his sister and she said that she would be in the museum. When he gets there he doesn't go in because he thinks about when he used to go and it makes him depressed.

Catcher in the Rye response 11-15

Holden keeps getting more depressed. He calls Sally Hayes for a date. He gets a prostitute and is excited and anxious at first but then when she gets to the room all he wants to do is talk. The theme for these chapters is loneliness because he is lonely and depressed all the time which makes him not think straight and do stuff that he regrets.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 15

Holden leaves the hotel and calls Sally Hayes to go on a date. He mentions that his mother still isn't over the death of Allie so he is going to wait to go home. He goes to have something to eat and sees two nuns. He gives them $10 for charity.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 14

Holden is in his room thinking about Allie and his past. He hears knocking at the door and it is the girl and elevator guy. They came to get the other $5. They get it and Holden is hit and is on the floor.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 13

When Holden leaves the club he gets into the elevator. The elevator attendent asks Holden if he wants a prostitute for the night and says $5. The girl comes to his room and Holden notices that she is young, almost his age. When she is leaving she asked for $10 and holden says that it was $5. He gave her $5 then she got mad and left.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 12

Holden goes to a club that his brother D.B. use to go to all the time. He heard that their piano player there was really good, his name was Ernie. When Holden listened to him play he wasn't impressed. He runs into a girl that his brother used to date, her name is Lillian. He didn't like her at all because she was a phony. Holden left because he didn't want to be around all of the phonies anymore.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 11

Holden is remembering Jane. They kissed one time but other than that all they did was hold hands. He remembers her dad who is a drunk, and how often they played checkers. Jane was the only other person that he showed Allie's glove to.

Catcher in the Rye Response 6-10

Holden lies a lot in these chapters. I believe he lies and pretends to be someone he isn't so he can cope with his depression, because the person that he is pretending to be doesn't have the problems that he has.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 10

Holden is bored so he is trying to find something to do. He wants to call his sister Phoebe but he doesn't. He goes to the Lavender Room which is a club in the hotel. He tries to order some drinks but can't because he is too young. He dances with some girls and buys them drinks but then leaves alone.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 9

Holden didn't know who to call when he got off the train. He got a cab and went to a hotel, where when he looked out the window into the windows of other rooms, he saw some weird stuff happening. He calls up Faith but she won't come over because she wants to get some sleep.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 8

Holden takes a train to New York. A women comes and sits with him, who happens to be Ernest Morrow's mother. He doesn't like Ernest much but he is telling his mom that he is a good person but very shy and modest. When she asks Holden for his name he gives her the name of the school janitor. He then lies about that he has a tumor and is going to have an operation.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 7

Holden is in Ackley's room asking him random questions and keeps waking Ackley up. Holden keeps thinking about Jane and about what Stradlater tried to do on his date with her. Holden gets mad, packs up his things then leaves Pencey for good.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 6

Stradlater gets back from his date and starts to argue with Holden over the topic of the paper that he wrote. Holden asks how the date went but Stradlater won't reply so Holden goes to punch him but gets pinned down by Stradlater because he is bigger and then Holden loses the fight. He goes to Ackley's room with a face full of blood.

Response chapters 1-5

The theme for these chapters would be loneliness. Holden is searching for a sense of belonging, he doesn't have any real friends he is mostly a loner but he doesn't like too many of the people because he says they are phonies. He has been kicked out of some schools and is failing most of his classes. He seems to be depressed and it may be caused by the death of Allie.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 5

Holden goes out with some friends and they have a snowball fight, they were going to go to a movie but decided not to because they have already seen it so they went to get some food. When Holden returns to his room he starts writting the paper and it is over Allie's baseball mitt which has poems written all over it. Allie is Holden's brother who died from luekemia.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 4

Holden is in the bathroom with Stradlater. Stradlater mentions that his date is Jane Gallagher. Holden knows her and used to be with her, and he still likes her. He wants to go talk to her but doesn't because he isn't in the mood to do it. Stradlater asks Holden to write a paper for him and Holden agrees to do it.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 3

Holden talks about where in lives, which is at Ossenburger Hall. While he is reading his book, another person in the school barged into his room and interupts him. Ackley starts cutting his nails on Holden's floor and Holden also mentions that he has really bad teeth and bad hygene. Stradlater comes into the room, who is Holden's roommate, which makes Ackley leave because he hates Stradlater. Stradlater is talking about this date he has with a girl.

Catcher in the Rye Chapter 2

Abstract: Holden is talking to Mr. Spencer in this chapter. Spencer keeps telling Holden that if he wants to get anywhere in life he will have to do better in school and get his grades up. Spencer pulls out a history paper that Holden wrote and critisizes it which makes Holden angry so he leaves.

The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 1

Abstract: Holden talks about his life at pencey, and about his brother D.B. who is in hollywood. He is manager of the fencing team and lost all of the equipment in the subway. He is a very heavy smoker. He sits on a hill watching the football game saying good-bye to all of the people, then talks to Mr. Spencer.