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The Catcher In The Rye
- Themes
- Isolation
- "I couldn't think of anybody to call up"
- "I couldn't think of anybody to call up"
- Preservation
- "The best thing, though, in that
museum was that everything
always stayed right where it was"
- symbols - snowball, museum, ducks
- "The best thing, though, in that
museum was that everything
always stayed right where it was"
- Isolation
- Setting
- Pencey
- A source of failure for Holden - being
kicked out, fighting etc.
- A source of failure for Holden - being
kicked out, fighting etc.
- New York
- Constant source of failure, like
Pencey - a symbol of
phoniness
- physically embodies Holden's hatreds - Phoniness etc.
- Constant source of failure, like
Pencey - a symbol of
phoniness
- Natural history musuem
- Favorite place of holdens as
everything remains the same,
preservation.
- Favorite place of holdens as
everything remains the same,
preservation.
- Pencey
- Major characters
- Holden Caulfield
- Main Character - anti hero
- "Holding-on" to a "caul" holding on
to the ideas of safety and warmth of
a caul - "David Copperfield"
- Quest narrative - to
find nirvana
- Main Character - anti hero
- Pheobe
- Innocent
- Innocent
- Holden Caulfield
- Structure
- Circular structure
Alone:Meets someone:Alone
- Consistent failure
- Consistent failure
- Minimisation of Language/passive voice
- Creates distance and isolation
- Creates distance and isolation
- Circular structure
Alone:Meets someone:Alone
- Symbolism
- Snowball
- Preservation, doesn't want to disturb the
snow on the fire hydrant and on the car
- Preservation, doesn't want to disturb the
snow on the fire hydrant and on the car
- Phonebooth
- Symbol of Communication - or rather
failure to communicate - "I couldn't think of
anybody to call up"
- Symbol of Communication - or rather
failure to communicate - "I couldn't think of
anybody to call up"
- Baseball mitt
- Symbol of Allie- used for catching, links to title and
symbolises isolation - (catcher is far away from the
rest of the team)
- Symbol of Allie- used for catching, links to title and
symbolises isolation - (catcher is far away from the
rest of the team)
- Record
- Circular - when it breaks it symbolises Holden
Shattering becoming critically fractured or damaged.
- Circular - when it breaks it symbolises Holden
Shattering becoming critically fractured or damaged.
- Grey Hair
- Symbol of impending adult-hood
- Symbol of impending adult-hood
- Red Hunting Hat
- Link to Allies red hair - unable to let go.
- Unique as Holden is the only
person ever presented as
wearing a hat creates distance from society
- Link to Allies red hair - unable to let go.
- Snowball
- Key Events
- Boy Singing
- "When a body catch a body comin' through the rye"
- gives rise to Holden's "dream" - to become the catcher in the rye. He wants to
stop children who are playing in a rye field from falling off of a large cliff, he
essentially would like to stop people growing up, to stop time.
- gives rise to Holden's "dream" - to become the catcher in the rye. He wants to
stop children who are playing in a rye field from falling off of a large cliff, he
essentially would like to stop people growing up, to stop time.
- The boy is walking on the curb, the curb represents the threshold between the
safety of the sidewalk and the perilous road adjacent to him. the pavement is
childhood and the road of course symbolises impending adulthood.
- "When a body catch a body comin' through the rye"
- Boy Singing
- J.D Salinger
- (1951)
- (1951)
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