... staying home during the big football game. Holden is remembering all the good times he had with Jane, the qualities he enjoyed in her. But Holden's struggling through his adolescent life. The symbolism of Jane keeping her kings in the back row in something that Holden likes and remembers very well. The author ... run. Holden likes her style and shows how he doesn't care about anything, let alone his life. He's just afraid of becoming another stupid adult. Jane symbolizes Holden's childhood and how she's a very happy and content person. He savors, and the little responsibility kids have ...

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... with that on person. There are two factors necessary, the sport and there only being one other person. This is shown when Holden "played tennis together [with Jane] every morning, and golf almost every afternoon, [He] really got to know her quite intimately" (Salinger 76). The words 'tennis' and 'golf' ... this has the same kind of connotation as tennis. In the 'golf' that Holden is talking about he is going to a course with Jane to play with her just like they play tennis 'together.' The two of them playing these specific sports together expresses the depth of their ...

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... is still just that, a friendship. Both girls have a really strong significance to Holden. In a certain way Caulfield loves both of them and is really protective about Jane and Phoebe. Although Holden likes women in general, if he does not know them very well, he stresses out and tends to drink. When talking to these women, ... When he goes to New York City, the first person Holden thinks of calling is Sally Hayes. Even if he does not have the courage to call Jane, he immediately calls Sally and they go out together. They decide to go watch a show and obviously she is late. Although she i...

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... perhaps unaware of it himself. Holden is also uncomfortable with girls; though he has childhood sweetheart Jane on his mind, he still goes out on a date with Sally. When Holden learns that Stradlater was dating Jane, he can't stop thinking about "her and Stradlater sitting in that goddam Ed Banky's car ... "-while he and Jane had never been particularly romantic, he is still irked by the prospect of Stradlater having romantic relations with her; his and Jane's relationship is not completely clear (76). Yet Holden still calls Sally on a date, and ... he "felt like marrying her the minute...

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... lot of built up anger that he ends up releasing onto other people that he meets. Although we never meet Jane in the book, Holden is constantly talking about her. On page 42, when he is fighting with Stradlater about Jane he says, "I could hardly keep my voice from shaking all over the place. Boy, was I getting nervous. ... I just had a feeling something had gone funny." This passage shows that Holden really does care about Jane, and that he is trying to protect her from Stradlater. ... On page 135, Holden is talking basically nonsense for a couple pages about Jane and some bastard she ...

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... and experienced for a Pencey boy, and utterly preoccupied with himself; he tends to assume everyone else is preoccupied with him, too. Jane Gallagher - Holden's former girlfriend, now dating Stradlater. Jane's summer house in Maine is next door to the Caulfields'. Jane never actually appears in The Catcher in the Rye, but she is extremely important to Holden--she is one of the few ... people who seem to understand and care about him, and is the only person with whom Holden feels comfortable discussing Allie's death. Jane's stepfather is an alcoholic, and their relationship is painful an...

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In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger used symbolism throughout the novel. Three major symbols were the ducks, the Museum of Natural History, and Jane Gallagher. They all represent Holden in a way, and Salinger uses these symbols very well. While Holden is wandering around New York City, he asks many people ... to his home, and he is wondering whether he should go home or stay outside and freeze. The other two symbols, Jane Gallagher and the Museum of Natural History, both represent the theme of the past. Jane Gallagher was an old friend of Holden's, and he mentions her many times during t...

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... . His resentment and disgust evolve into a fight when Holden is taunted by Stradlater about his date with Jane. He is upset to learn that Stradlater was responsible for Jane missing her curfew and spent the evening parked in a car. Ward Stadlater is incapable of appreciating Jane; rather he is just interested in another sexual conquest. "The trouble was that I knew that guy Stradlater ... ...

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... . Through Holden's relationship with Stradlater, it's easy to see why they don't get along. Holden thinks that Stradlater's a moron. One reason for this is Holden thinks that Stradlater doesn't respect Jane. Jane is one of Holden's best friends from childhood and Stradlater would rather give her the time and forget about her. That's why they both got into a fistfight. Also, while Stradlater ... this and doesn't have much real evidence. Holden tries to be friends with him and maintain a good relationship, but because Stradlater doesn't like the composition, and has no respect for Jane, Ho...

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... the notice. Holden did not want to take the chance of having to tell his parents the news if they hadn't received the letter. In addition, " I figured maybe I"d give old Jane a buzz and see if she was home for vacation yet. So I went in a phone booth and called her up. The only trouble was her mother answered the phone so I had ... to hang up."(116) After feeling lonely in New York Holden decides to call his old friend Jane. This quote shows Holden's inability to even make "small talk" with an adult. Once deciding to leave Pencey early and go to New York we start to notice Holden's weak...

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... Stradlater. The way he talks and acts in his conceited manner makes his appearance less pleasurable. Nobody really looks toward Stradlater in a friendly way except for "the girls" such as Jane Gallagher. Nobody even knows for sure how the girls feel about Stradlater because their opinions of him all come from himself. Nobody ever hears what people besides Holden and Ackley ... 's roommate now." This quote along with many other thoughts from Holden show that Stradlater moves from woman to woman without taking things too seriously. In fact, it hurts Holden because Jane was his best friend ...

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... extra money. After Maurice and Sunny leave, Holden imagines himself shot and bloody, walking down the stairs carrying an automatic and shooting Maurice until he's dead. Then he imagines that Jane is aiding his wounds while he is lying in bed. This is a typical movie scene and in it, Holden is a character who is tough and cool like the movie heroes ... while he waits patiently. One of the main reasons why Holden experiences his mental break down is the death of his brother Allie. A few other reasons are the thought of Jane loosing her innocence. During his mental break down, he keeps que...

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... be accepted into the adult world. Children remember people by something unique they did in the past, but adults only remember people by sexual experiences. Holden remembers the way that Jane would play checkers with him " She wouldn't move any of her kings. What she"d do, when she"d get a king, she wouldn't move it. She"d just leave it in the back ... her better. He tried to make something meaningful out of her being up in his room but she did not understand what he was trying to do. On Stradlater's and Jane's" date it does not matter if he gave her the time or not, whatever they did th...

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... to accept or reject. The singer repeatedly refers to himself being "on the outside". Finally, there is a parallel between the singer's relationship with his love and Holden's relationship with Jane Gallagher. Jane is the one person that Holden believes isn't phony. Similarly, the singer feels that his love can magnify the "light", or truth. Both the singer and Holden finally accept that ... ...

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... can not only satisfy ourselves sexually, but spiritually too. Holden is no exception, regardless of what he thinks of himself. He dedicates a whole chapter to Jane Gallagher, the girl he loves. " she was a funny girl, old Jane. I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though she was the only one that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with ... ...

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... suffers from a mental and emotional breakdown that is shown throughout the novel. Holden's depression is illustrated in different ways. In particular, the death of his younger brother Allie, relationship with Jane and other fellow students or roommates, love and sexual life, and troubles in school are the main reasons to his depression. These examples of Holden's depression are clear symptoms of ... ...

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... intelligent and sensitive individual, who has a very distinct voice and personality. When Holden gets of the train in New York, he was looking for someone to call. He considers calling Jane, but concludes that this wasn't a great idea as seen in the phrase "Her mother knew my mother and I could picture her breaking a goddam leg to get to the phone ... ...

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In J.D. Salinger's, "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield is characterized by his need to protect innocence. This includes watching out for Jane so that Stradlater would not "give her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car" (Salinger 43), to yelling at Phoebe so that she did not come "out ... ...

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... towards others " for awhile, and kept calling him a moron sonuvabitch." Also when Holden got into an argument with Stradlater and said, "you don't even know if her first name is Jane or Jean ya goddam moron!" Holden also has a bad attitude towards sexual intercourse. The way Holden talks about sexual intercourse in the novel gives people ideas. Holden talks about his ... ...

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... often does the same things that make him call others "phony-. For instance, he is angry with Stradlater because he doesn't even remember if his date's name is Jean or Jane. However, Holden himself admits although he doesn't particularly like Sally Hayes, he tells her he loves her. He complains that Ackley only stops cutting his nails all over the floor ... ...

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... strongly that sex should happen between people who care deeply about and respect one another, and he is upset by the realization that sex can be casual. Stradlater's date with Jane doesn't just make him jealous; it angers him to think of a girl he knows well having sex with a boy she doesn't know well. He is also disturbed by the fact ... ...

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... . He wants to shield them from the horrible things that exist in the real world. Holden admires people who are innocent such as Phoebe, the Nuns, and Allie. He remembers Jane as innocent and is unable to re-contact her, in fear that her innocence has been lost. This wanting to preserve innocence is evident when Holden gets so upset about ... ...

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... go of things and how he always brings things back up in later chapters. It shows how easily he gets attached to random things like that hunting hat, ducks, and Jane how she never moves he king's from the back row. I chose that passage because I thought it was the best one I could find and one of the only ones I could remember ... ...

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... feels strongly that sex should happen between people who care deeply about and respect each another. He is upset by the knowing that sex can be careless. Stradlater's date with Jane doesn't just make him jealous, it makes him mad to think of a girl he knows well having sex with a boy she does not know well. He is disturbed by the ... ...

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... could he possibly value a girl who keeps her kings in the back row, when she plays checkers, because they look nice back there". The people Holden admires all represent innocence. Jane Gallagher is not a maturing young woman, but the girl with whom he used to play checkers. Holden tells us he had no sexual relationships with her, but they would merely ... ...

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