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Title: SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - The Catcher in the Rye Author: Michele Leibowitz Last modified by: Dee Created Date: 1/25/2012 3:35:00 PM. Catcher in the Rye Study Guide Answers Our English teacher downloaded this study guide off the web years ago, sadly after countless searches I still haven't found the answers to this guide. So I answered them and here they are.

Although J.D. Salinger has written many short stories, The Catcher in the Rye is Salinger's only novel and his most notable work, earning him great fame and admiration as a writer and sparking many high school students' interest in great literature. The protagonist's adventures and concerns about 'phony' people engage readers young and old.

The novel draws on characters and themes that appeared in a number of Salinger's earlier short stories, some of which form the basis for individual chapters in The Catcher in the Rye. Indeed, the Caulfield family is the subject of two of Salinger's major stories, 'This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise' and 'I'm Crazy,' as well as a number of unpublished works.

The first of these stories, 'This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise,' is narrated by Vincent Caulfield, who learns that his brother is missing from Pentey Preparatory School (changed to Pencey in the novel). Vincent serves as the basis for D.B. Caulfield, Holden's older brother in the novel, and is the protagonist in a number of stories by Salinger. In 'An Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,' Vincent recalls his relationship with Kenneth, his deceased younger brother (the obvious basis for Allie). This unpublished story also details how Kenneth becomes angry when an adult calls Holden crazy and how Holden complains about hypocritical adults at his summer camp.

Other Salinger stories can be read as filling in details left out of The Catcher in the Rye. 'The Last and Best of the Peter Pans,' narrated by Vincent Caulfield, focuses on a conversation between Vincent and his actress mother, Mary Moriarty, concerning a questionnaire from the draft board that she had hidden from Vincent. This conversation ends with a reference to her wanting to keep a child from going over a cliff, a notion that Holden references in The Catcher in the Rye when he discusses his ideal situation with Phoebe. In another story, 'Last Day of the Last Furlough,' Vincent and 'Babe' Gladwaller prepare to go off to World War II. Salinger has Vincent Caulfield die during the war, and 'The Stranger' concerns 'Babe' Gladwaller's attempt to tell Vincent's girlfriend how he died.

The other major short story concerning the Caulfield family is 'I'm Crazy,' the story which forms the basis for the first two chapters of The Catcher in the Rye as well as the chapter in which Holden goes home to see Phoebe. In this story, however, Holden expresses greater regret for his expulsion from Pentey, even lamenting that he will never again play games of football on Saturday evenings with his friends from school. The chapter in which Holden tries to convince Sally to run away with him to New England finds its source in yet another short story, 'Slight Rebellion Off Madison.'

The derivation of The Catcher in the Rye from a series of unrelated short stories--as well as Salinger's affection for the form of the short story--helps explain the pacing and relative lack of narrative continuity in the novel. No setting or character other than Holden continues in the novel for more than two consecutive chapters (which also may be a characteristic feature of Holden’s specific story). Holden, as narrator, is the only continuous character in the entire story. Characters such as Sally Hayes and Mr. Antolini appear only in one chapter and then mostly disappear. The first chapters of the novel, which are all set at Pencey, are the only ones that sustain the same characters and setting for an extended period. Furthermore, since Salinger reiterates thematic elements throughout the novel (in practically every chapter Holden complains about phonies), many of the chapters essentially could be short stories in themselves.

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Chapter 1

1. Holden is the narrator of the entire story and he promises to tell the story of his crazy Christmas

2. DB is Holden’s brother and he calls him a prostitute because he sells himself as a writer.

3. Pencey Prep is the school Holden attends.

4. Holden is leaving because he failed all his classes but one, he feels passive.

Chapter 2

1. Mr. Spencer is his history teacher and Holden visits him because he is a nice guy

2. Holden describes himself as an average guy?

3. Mr. Spencer reads the essay because it is a failure of an essay, a joke. Holden is not happy by having the essay read aloud to him. Whooton and Elkton Hills are old schools, which Holden left because they stunk too.

Chapter 3

1. Holden bought a red hat in New York

2. Holden likes DB, Lardner, and Isak Dinese. No, I don’t enjoy these writers.

3. Ackley is Holden’s neighbor. Holden seems to not really like him and I do not blame him. The kid is a punk.

4. Stradlater is his roommate, a beefy conceited ladies man.

Chapter 4

1. Stradlater asks Holden to write an essay for him

2. Stradlater’s date is Jane, a girl Holden likes.

3. Jane was an old neighbor of Holden and he liked her. Holden is upset that Stradlater is dating her.

Chapter 5

1. Holden goes to Agerstown to see a movie. Ends up back at his room writing that essay. Easycap video capture software.

2. After failing to write on such a simple essay topic, Holden writes about a baseball glove his brother used to write poems upon in green ink.

3. Allie was Holden’s brother. He was a rather intelligent and innocent child. Holden loved him.

4. Allie died several years before; he would be 2 years younger than Holden, which puts him at 14, compared to Holden at 16.

Chapter 6

1. Holden is worried about how Stradlater’s date with Jane went.

2. Stradlater doesn’t like the “composition” because it has absolutely nothing to do with the essay topic. Understandably he is annoyed. Holden sensing this irritation tears up the essay which initiates tension only magnified when Holden tries to leak out info about the date. Ending in a fight and Holden getting his face beat in.

Chapter 7

1. Holden goes to Ackley’s room because his face is all bloodied up, needs a place to stay and Ackley sits and listens to Holden’s whining.

2. He calls Ackley these names because he actually listens but then becomes annoyed and Holden becomes upset.

3. Holden leaves because he is simply upset with everyone’s phoniness, especially Ackley at the moment. He plans to go to New York.

Chapter 8

1. An attractive older woman who ends up being a mother of his classmate

2. Holden lies to her and tells her how popular her son is. He does this to make her feel better.

3. Holden uses the excuse that he has a brain tumor operation in New York

Chapter 9

1. DB, Phoebe, Jane, Sally. ends up calling no one.

2. Holden attempts to strike up a conversation with a taxi driver and fails.

3. Holden sees a couple with a strange fetish involving cross

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