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- Robert Ackley
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- Holden Caulfield
The novel's narrator and protagonist, Holden is a high...
- Sunny
Sunny is a teenage prostitute who visits Holden ’s room at...
- Mr. Antolini
Holden 's former English teacher from Elkton Hills, Holden’s...
- Robert Ackley
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- Allie Caulfield
- D.B. Caulfield
- Ackley
- Mrs. Caulfield
- Mr. Caulfield
- Jane Gallagher
- Horwitz
- Carl Luce
- Maurice
- Ernest Morrow
Allie Caulfield is Holden’s dead younger brother. Holden remembers him as a polite and friendly child and thinks about him often, especially when he’s depressed. Allie died from leukemia when Holden was 13 and that night Holden slept in the garage and broke all the windows with his fist causing him to miss the funeral because he was in the hospital...
D.B.Caulfield is Holden’s older brother. Though he looked up to him when he was younger Holden develops mixed feelings towards him. D.B.fought in World War II and then became a successful short story writer. When he started writing scripts for Hollywood Holden started losing respect for him and started calling him a phony. D.B. is the person who vi...
Ackley is one of the students who live next to Holden at Princely Prep. He has terrible personal hygiene and an annoying personality so he isn’t very well liked by most of the other students. After Holden’s fight with Stradlater, he goes to Ackley’s room, but Ackley frustrates him and that adds to his decision to leave Princely Prep.
Mrs. Caulfield is Holden’s mother. She never talks to Holden in the story, but she makes an appearance when he is hiding in Phoebe’s room when Holden sneaks into the house. She seems to be a loving mother and a kind woman, but she is still grieving the death of her youngest child, Allie.
Mr.Caulfield is Holden’s father. Though we never see him in the story, he appears in Holden’s thoughts a few times. He is a hardworking lawyer and a caring but strict father.
Jane Gallagher is the girl the Ward Stradlater went on a date with the night that Holden leaves Princely Prep. Jane and Holden spent a summer together a few years ago when their families vacationed in the same place and he has very fond memories of her. She’s the only young woman that Holden respects and thinks about calling her several times throu...
Horwitz is a cab driver that takes Holden from his hotel to a piano bar called Ernie’s. Horwitz is one of the few people that replies to Holden’s question about what happens to the ducks in the pond at central park in the winter when the water freezes. Horwitz is more interested in what happens to the fish in the pond. Holden invites him for a drin...
Carl Luce was Holden’s student mentor at the Whooton School. Three years older than Holden, he used to tell the younger students stories about sex and about his uncanny ability to spot gay people, leading Holden to think that he might secretly be gay himself. Despite calling him a phony the last time he saw him, Holden asks to meet Carl at a bar in...
Maurice is the elevator attendant at the hotel that Holden stays at in New York. He is also a pimp and is the one who offers to send Sunny the prostitute to Holden’s room. Later, he reappears with sunny to beat up and rob Holden.
Ernest Morrow is a student at Princely Prep that Holden thinks is the biggest bastard in the school.
"'How have you been?' The way she asked me, I knew right away old Spencer'd told her I'd been kicked out" (8). Dr. Thurmer. The current headmaster of Pencey Prep. Holden views him as two-faced and uptight. He does small things impress outsiders and hides the corruption that lives within the walls.
A list of all the characters in The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye characters include: Holden Caulfield, Phoebe Caulfield, Mr. Antolini, Mr. Spencer, Stradlater, Carl Luce.
Jul 12, 2019 · Learn about the main characters in J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye,' including Holden, Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe, Allie, and more.
