Holden caulfield - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Who is the narrator? About what does he promise to tell the reader? - Answer-The narrator is Holden Caulfield. He promises to tell the reader about this "madman" stuff that happened to him around last Christmas. Who is D.B? Why does the narrator call him a prostitute? - Answer-D.B is Holden's brother. Holden calls him a prostitute because D.B sells his stories so people can turn them into movies. He thinks he is selling himself short. What is Pencey Prep? - Answer-Pencey Prep is a schoo...

Holden Caulfield - Answer-The protagonist and narrator of the novel Ackley - Answer-Holden's annoying gross next-door neighbor in his dorm at Pencey Prep. Stradlater - Answer-Holden's handsome, self-satisfied, and popular roommate at Pencey Prep. Phoebe Caulfield - Answer-Holden's ten-year-old sister, whom he loves dearly. Although she is six years younger than Holden, she listens to what he says and understands him more than most other people do. Roller-skate skinny with red hair. S...

Who is Holden Caulfield? - Answer-He is a sixteen-year old- student at a prep school in Pennsylvania Where does Holden narrates the story - Answer-He is at a rest home in California Why wasn't Holden at the big football game - Answer-He had just returned to school with the fencing team and had to see his history teacher Why wouldn't Holden be back to Penney after Christmas vacation - Answer-He had been expelled, because he failed four out of five classes except for english What "d...

Chapter 1 - Answer-* Holden Caulfield - main character; cynical; connects to life at an idealistic level -> shields himself from the flaws of the world with his cynical ways * Brother D.B. is a Hollywood writer * Kicked out of his school -> Pencey Prep -> refused to apply himself * goes to the football game -> no interest in it * Supposed to be in New York for a meet b/c he is manager of the fencing team, but he lost the equipment on the subway, forcing them to return early ...

The Protagonist of a play or novel who has the opposite of most traditional attributes of a hero, such as Don Quixote or Holden Caulfield is a(n) - Answer-Antihero a douzain is a verse with_____ lines - Answer-12 Harvard publishes a well known periodical in which the verse and prose ridicule and satirize their subjects in a scurrilous manner. It is called the Harvard______, so named for its sardonic content. - Answer-Lampoon The following selection by Gerard Manley Hopkins shows an exam...

UIL Literary Criticism Test Exam Questions and Answers 2024 The Protagonist of a play or novel who has the opposite of most traditional attributes of a hero, such as Don Quixote or Holden Caulfield is a(n) - CORRECT ANSWERAntihero a douzain is a verse with_____ lines - CORRECT ANSWER-12 Harvard publishes a well known periodical in which the verse and prose ridicule and satirize their subjects in a scurrilous manner. It is called the Harvard______, so named for its sardonic content. - ...

UIL Literary Criticism Test Exam Questions and Answers 2024 The Protagonist of a play or novel who has the opposite of most traditional attributes of a hero, such as Don Quixote or Holden Caulfield is a(n) - CORRECT ANSWERAntihero a douzain is a verse with_____ lines - CORRECT ANSWER-12 Harvard publishes a well known periodical in which the verse and prose ridicule and satirize their subjects in a scurrilous manner. It is called the Harvard______, so named for its sardonic content. - ...

Holden Caulfield a sixteen-year old adolescent. Holden’s dream is to catch young children before they fall over a ‘cliff’, yet he finds himself on a downhill spiral. ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that is set in 1949. Holden Caulfield is a protagonist as well as the first-person narrator. Holden Caulfield is an immature boy, Holden values innocence of childhood and struggles to move forward with growing up. Holden is frightened of getting older and cro...

Catcher in the Rye Questions with correct Answers who is Holden Caulfield? He is the protagonist of the story and is 17 years old Who is DB and why is Holden somewhat contemptuous of him? DB is Holden's older brother. Holden is somewhat contemptuous of him because he thinks he is selling himself out by writing movies What is the reality of Pencey Prep in contrast to the advertisements, as seen by Holden? The contrast between the advertisements and reality is that the advertise...

UIL Literary Criticism Test Exam Questions and Answers 2024 The Protagonist of a play or novel who has the opposite of most traditional attributes of a hero, such as Don Quixote or Holden Caulfield is a(n) - CORRECT ANSWERAntihero a douzain is a verse with_____ lines - CORRECT ANSWER-12 Harvard publishes a well known periodical in which the verse and prose ridicule and satirize their subjects in a scurrilous manner. It is called the Harvard______, so named for its sardonic content. - ...