The Catcher in the Rye

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The Catcher in the Rye

• Pages 166-193

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The Duality of Phoebe

• Old Phoebe
• She sounds like a schoolteacher sometimes, and
  shes only a little child. (167)
• Dont swear so much. (168)
• Stop swearing. (172)

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The Duality of Phoebe

• Young Phoebe
• Believes she can increase her body temperature
• I can make it go up to over the thermoneter.
  (176)
• Mispronounces the word like a kid

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Name One Thing Holden Likes

• Holden cannot answer this question
• Holden cannot stop thinking about James Castle
• Former classmate of Holdens at Elkton Hills
• Commits suicide
• Jumps out of a window
• Mr. Antolini covers up James body

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Name One Thing Holden Likes

• Eventually Holden comes up with an answer
• I like Allie (171)
• Phoebes response
• Allies dead (171)

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Name One Thing Holden Likes

• I know hes dead! Dont you think I know that? I
  can still like him, though, cant I? Just because
  somebodys dead, you dont just stop liking them,
  for Gods sakeespecially if they were about a
  thousand times nicer than the people you know
  thatre alive and all. (171)

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The Catcher in the Rye

• Remembers the poem incorrectly
• Wants to catch kids playing in a field of rye
  before they fall off the cliff
• Unrealistic
• This job does not exist

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The Catcher in the Rye

• Symbolism
• Kids falling off the cliff
• Losing innocence and gaining experience
• Like death to Holden

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Holden Says Goodbye to Phoebe

• Then, all of a sudden, I started to cry. I
  couldnt help it. I did it so nobody could hear
  me, but I did itI put my arm around her, too,
  but I still couldnt stop for a long time. I
  thought I was going to choke to death or
  something. (179)

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Holden Says Goodbye to Phoebe

• Gives Phoebe his red hunting hat
• Tries to protect Phoebe?
• Foreshadowing?
• Will Holden not be there to protect her in the
  future?

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Holdens Health

• I felt funny when I got outside. Sort of dizzy.
  (181)
• I was still feeling sort of dizzy or something,
  and I had a helluva headache all of a sudden.
  (183)
• I had a headache and I felt lousy. I even had
  sort of a stomach ache, if you want to know the
  truth. (184)
• Boy, I felt so damn tired all of a sudden. (188)

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Characteristics of Mr. Antolini

• Young teacher
• Put his coat over James Castle and carried him
  away
• Reminds Holden of D.B.

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Mr. Antolinis Marriage

• Mrs. Antolini has a lot of money
• Mrs. Antolini was about sixty years older than
  Mr. Antolini (181)
• the both of them were never in the same room at
  the same time. It was sort of funny. (182)
• They were always kissing each other a lot in
  public. (185)

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Mr. Antolinis Advice

• I have a feeling that youre riding for some
  kind of a terrible, terrible fall. (186)
• The mark of the immature man is that he wants to
  die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the
  mature man is that he wants to live humbly for
  one. (188)

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Mr. Antolinis Advice

• Among other things, youll find that youre not
  the first person who was ever confused and
  frightened and even sickened by human behavior.
  Youre by no means alone on that score(189)

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What Happens?

• Pages 191-193
• Was it inappropriate?
• Is it relevant?

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Holdens Reaction MightBe More Relevant

• I know more damn perverts, at schools and all,
  than anybody you ever met, and theyre always
  being perverty when Im around. (192)

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Holdens Reaction MightBe More Relevant

• Boy, I was shaking like a madman. I was
  sweating, too. When something perverty like that
  happens, I start sweating like a bastard. That
  kind of stuffs happened to me about twenty times
  since I was a kid. I cant stand it. (193)

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Holdens Reaction MightBe More Relevant

• What does Holdens reaction tell us?
• This has happened to Holden before.