Holden's big brother | ||
Pencey's headmaster's daughter; nice but not pretty | ||
Tells him to stop throwing the ball around; his real "goodbye" | ||
Holden's history teacher who's old and sick | ||
Headmaster at Elkton School; phony; only greet good looking parents | ||
Headmaster at Pencey; "life is a game" | ||
Pencey alum; gave a speech; made $ by opening funeral homes | ||
Farted during Ossenburger's speech | ||
Holden's dormmate; bad skin and teeth; no one likes him | ||
Holden's roommate; phony friendly; secret slob | ||
Stradlater's date; Holden's childhood friend; never moved her kings | ||
Wrestler that goes into town with Holden and Ackley | ||
Bball coach at Pencey; favored Stradlater | ||
Holden's old gf; goes to a matinee with her; makes her cry; really pretty | ||
Holden meets his mom; tells her that he's popular and sensitive when he's really the biggest bastard | ||
Janitor of Holden's dorm; Holden's name when talking to Mrs. Morrow | ||
Holden's little sister | ||
Girl that Holden necked with once; phony | ||
Gave Holden Faith Cavendish's number; goes to Princeton | ||
Holden calls her to set up a date but it's too late; sounds nice | ||
3 tourists that Holden meets and dances with at the Lavender Room | ||
Jane Gallagher's step-father; booze-hound | ||
Snobby but talented piano player; phony | ||
Touchy cabdriver that drives Holden to Ernie's | ||
D.B.'s ex gf; Holden runs into her at Ernie's | ||
Hotel elevator operator; gets in a fist fight with him | ||
Young prostitute sent to Holden; she lost her childhood | ||
Guy that Holden went biking with instead of Allie | ||
Quaker that Holden had a religious argument with | ||
Holden's roommate at Elkton Hills; had crappy suitcases; burgeois | ||
Holden let him borrow his typewriter | ||
Sings "Little Shirley Beans" | ||
Jane Gallagher dated him; hot-shot | ||
French singers at the Wicker Bar | ||
Prominent couple in Broadway theater | ||
Holden's pseudo-name | ||
Always took Holden's class to the museum | ||
Met him at the Wicker Bar; talks to him about sex and Chinese philosophy | ||
Nerdy kid who jumped from the window | ||
First kid Holden met at Whooten; ruined convo when he asked about the Catholic church | ||
Holden has a LONG talk with him; likes to drink; makes a "flitty" move | ||
Always had "Digression!" shouted at him | ||
Actually has an inferiority complex but girls think he's arrogant | ||
Taught Oral Expressions class | ||
Book of short stories D.B. wrote | ||
Where Holden is in a loony bin, D.B. lives there | ||
Holden wonders where the ducks go when the pond freezes | ||
Steak; parents visited the next day and would ask what they had for dinner | ||
Topic of Holden's essay; Mr. Spencer goes over with him | ||
One of Holden's old schools | ||
Cheesy club in the Edmont Hotel | ||
What Holden has an operation on when Sunny wants to do things; really a type of piano | ||
People sell themselves like prostitutes there | ||
One of Holden's schools | ||
The day Allie died; punched out windows of the garage | ||
Only part Holden likes about the Radio City Christmas show | ||
Where D.B. is writing a movie about | ||
Gets totally smashed there; drinks with Carl; calls Sally | ||
The way Stradlater talks to his dates | ||
Holden sleeps/stores his stuff there | ||
Holden takes Phoebe there before he gets sick; reminds him of childhood because it never changes and just keeps going around |
Knights - Catcher in the Rye Characters
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