Catcher In The Rye Outline

In the first chapter of this novel, we get introduced to the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Holden Caufield, from a rest home in which he has been sent for therapy. He refuses to talk about his early life, although he does explain that his older brother “D.B” sold out to writing for Hollywood. His story and breakdown begins in the school of Pencey Prep, a boarding school set in Pennsylvania. The setting for the early chapters in the narration is his "terrible" school, to which he describes the atmosphere to be “as cold as the December air on Thomsen Hill”. Holden’s student career at Pencey Prep has been destroyed by his refusal to apply himself. We know this after Holden explains he failed four of his five subjects, passing only English. Due to his lack of effort and determination, he was forbidden to return to the school after the term. The Saturday before Christmas vacation began, Holden overlooked the football field, where Pencey usually

In chapter 21 Holden returns home two days early because he wants to say his goodbyes to Phoebe, when arriving at his family's apartment he walks over to Phoebe’s room and sees that she is not there, he then goes to D.B’s room to find her sleeping. Before deciding to wake up Phoebe, Holden sits in D.B’s room and looks at his brother’s desk and says “You ought to see her doing her homework or something at that crazy desk. It’s almost as big as the bed. You can hardly see her when she’s doing her homework. That’s the kind of stuff she likes, though” (Salinger 175-176). Phoebe is a smart, strong and a confident young woman. Phoebe redefines stereotypes by being intelligent which is one of the traits that Holden admires throughout the course of the novel. Phoebe embodies such a conception of perfection by being intelligent that she becomes an ideal for Holden as he thinks highly of

The Catcher in the Rye is one of J. D. Salinger's world-famous books about the disgruntled youth. Holden Caulfield is the main character and he is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden separates the “phony” aspects of society, and the “phonies” themselves. Some of these “phony” people in his life are the headmaster whose friendliness depends on the wealth of the parents, and his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. This book deals with the complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Holden senses these feelings most of the time and is guilty about many things in

The Catcher in the Rye was about Holden, who admires in children attributes that he struggles to find in adults to talk to him and he is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital. Holden Caulfield,who is 16 year old teenager went to three schools, but fails four of his five subjects only passed English he also struggles with the fact that everyone has to grow up. In the novel, Holden tells the reader through a few days of his life, in which he flaunts his hostile environments. Throughout the book,

Holden tells Phoebe that what he actually wants to do when he 's older is he wants to be the "catcher in the rye". He tells Phoebe the lyrics to the song that the boy was singing, "If a body, catch a body, coming through the rye." Phoebe corrects him telling him that the song he is referring to is actually a poem, and the correct lyrics are "If a body, meet a body, coming through the rye." He acknowledges her, but he believes he is right, being as he 's the older brother and all. Using the lyrics that he believes are right as his inspiration he creates a fantasy world, making himself the

In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger writes about Holden’s life and how he is remembering his past when he went to Pencey Prep, the last of four boarding schools that he has attended. Holden is seventeen when he tells the story but the part of the story he is telling, he is sixteen, the novel also follows Holden after he has left Pencey Prep. Throughout the novel Holden slowly reveals how he feels towards his roommates, Stradlater and Ackley, and how he feels towards his siblings, D.B., who is a writer in Hollywood and Allie, who passed away from leukemia. Holden shows his lonely, short tempered, and insecure characteristics through name calling and descriptive diction.

Phoebe was mad at Holden because she couldn’t run away with him. However, she followed him to the zoo. Holden brought a carousel ticket for Phoebe and was happy first time, through the entire story, simply by watching her ride. “I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around” (213). He realizes that his action would affect his impressionable younger sister. Finally, he decided not to run away

The next morning, Holden calls Sally Hayes, a girl he used to go out with, and they agree to go to a matinee in the afternoon. While he eats breakfast, he meets two nuns and donates ten dollars to them. He calls Jane Gallagher, but hangs up when her mother picks up. He goes to Central Park to meet his sister phoebe, but one of her classmates tells him that she might be in the Museum of Natural History. He goes to the museum, even though he knows that she’s not there, but then decides against going in and goes to meet Sally

During her break in the story he describes Phoebe as exceptionally smart, very sensible( high praise as he calls almost everyone a “phony” at some point), and a great conversationalist, saying that she, “... kills everybody- everybody with any sense, anyway.”. Multiple times throughout the book Holden calls her a “little kid”, saying that when she was younger she was a “very little kid”, and he shows how he believes her to still be innocent to the world in how he reacts when he sees a “fuck you” written on a wall at her school, thinking, “I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them- all cockeyed, naturally- what it meant, and how they’d all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple days.”, supporting my belief that some of his love and protectiveness of her stems from the fact that he wants to be a “Catcher in the Rye”, a defender of the innocent/innocence, and someone who can do something indisputably good for his whole life, never acting “phony” like he fears he would if he did other jobs. As he says to Phoebe when she asks him what he’d like to be, “I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-

     Although Holden is extremely cynical and struggles with relationships, he is not all bad. Inside he is moral and generous. He was very charitable when he gave a considerable donation of twenty dollars to the nuns. Holden has a strange way of loving people.

Another female that takes part in Holden's life is Sally Hayes. She is a beautiful but shallow girl that Holden has dated in the past. To Holden's standards, Sally is another "phony" person but her beauty makes Holden put his standards aside for the moment. The unusual thing is that Holden made it clear that he disliked the girl, yet he said that the minute he saw her, he felt like marrying her. On their date together, he tells her that he loved her even though it was a lie, and yet he meant it when he said it. In return, Sally tells Holden that she loved him as well. After exchanging their false feelings for each other, Holden tries to explain what is happening in his life, but she is incapable of understanding his problems.

The protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caufield, a skinny sixteen year old that was attending a school called Pencey Prep, until he was expelled for failing out of the majority of his classes there. And this wasn't the first time, Holden had been kicked out of many schools in the past. He puts forth no effort to things that aren't important to him, which results in the many cases of being expelled. However, Holden does care about some people and things in his life. His ten year old sister, Phoebe Caulfield is much cared about by Holden.

Throughout the course of the novel, the author often uses Holden’s narration to personally discuss his relationship with his siblings. Undoubtedly, the death of Holden’s beloved brother Allie had a staggering influence on him. Although the incident does not occur throughout Holden’s 3 day journey (it happened when he was 13), he makes constant reference to it and the impact it has on him in the present. Even though Allie was younger than Holden, the author was able to depict that Holden adored and looked up to Allie in many ways. Allie’s death was most likely the major cause of Holden’s depression, frequent feeling of loneliness and bitter perspective on life and the actions of those around him. It can be speculated that Allie’s death damaged Holden mentally and is the cause for his behavior. Holden still treasures Allie’s old baseball glove on which he wrote many renowned and inspirational lines of poetry.

The Catcher in the Rye is a book about a guy named Holden Caulfield. He narrates the whole story to the readers. He starts off by telling the story about being at Pencey Prep school, which is a private school located in Pennsylvania. It is the day of the game and he misses it saying everyone is a bunch of “phonies.” He ends up getting expelled because he is failing four out of five classes and goes to say goodbye to his teacher Mr. Spencer. Before he leaves he goes back to his dorm to find his roommate, Stradlater, getting ready for a date with Jane Gallagher. Holden used to date Jane and he is very angry at Stradlater. When Stradlater returns from the date with Jane, Holden questions Stradlater immensely and Holden attacks Stradlater because he is in such a rage. Holden then realizes he has had enough of the prep school and leaves a couple days earlier to go back to Manhattan.

Catcher in the Rye starts off with Holden Caufield, the main character, alone at the top of Thomsen Hill above Pencey Prep. Holden has gotten kicked out of Pencey along with numerous other schools. Laziness is the reason of Holdens lack of success in school like many teenage boys. He goes back to his dorm and starts reading the book Out of Africa when his doofus roommate Robert Ackley walks in. His description to meet is just that awkwardly tall kid, like myself but with poor hygiene. Holdens roommate, Stradlater comes in and tells them about a date he is going on with none other than Holdens old fling named Jane Gallagher. Stradlater has a carefree attitude for her calling her by the wrong name multiple times. Stradlater also asks Holden to write an English composition for him since that is the only class Holden is not failing. Holden reluctantly agrees and that is when we get our first taste of why he is such an angry kid. He writes about his little brother named Allie who died a few years before of Leukemia. He specifically wrote about his baseball glove that he wrote poems on so he