He hates going to school, hates his parents. All he likes is girls and going out.
He loves to say that everything is phoney. Everything he says is phoney to him.
He gets kicked out of every school he goes to.
He's a junior (11th grade). He's narrating the story one year after-the-fact, and on page 9 he says, "I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now..." (First paperback edition, Little, Brown & Company).
Holden Caulfield was failing English when he left Pencey Prep school in "The Catcher in the Rye."
He never does, the whole point of the allusion is that he can never achieve it.
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The main character is Holden Caufield, other characters are Jane Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. Antolini, Mr. Spencer, Phoebe Caufield (holden's little sister), Stradlater, Maurice (pimp)
Holden Caulfield has self-esteem issues, bipolar disorder, depression, and post traumatic stress.
Dear Ruth
The novel is written in the first person, and Holden himself is the narrator.
Holden Caulfield's favorite game was "ping-pong." He often enjoyed playing it at his school's gym.
Holden Caulfield
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Yes, he does.
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Well if the book was taking place in 1951 and he is 16, then he was born in 1935.
Holden Caulfield's eyes are described as gray in the novel "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger.