The catcher in the rye

Here is my project on Holden Caulfield, and what I did was written a little about people that influenced Holden in my opinion.

Holden:
A student at Prency Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. Isn’t a good student and he fails 4 out of his 5 classes in the 1st semester. Holden doesn’t like to talk about his early life much all we know is Allie, his younger brother died several years ago and someone from a previous school committed suicide. After the fight with Stradlater, he decides to pack his bags and head to New York. Once he arrives at the Penn station, he can’t think of anyone to call so he goes to the hotel. After getting settled in he goes to Ernie’s and when he comes back, Maurice the hotel operator asked him if he was interested in getting a prostitute and Holden said yes. One night after going to the bar and getting really drunk, he decides to sneak back to his parents’ apartment and see Phoebe.
Phoebe:
Phoebe is Holden’s 10 year old sister and they are really close even with the 6 year age difference. After sneaking into the apartment, Holden looks for Phoebe and finds her in D.B.’s room sleeping. He goes threw her stuff and reads her letters to her friends. After awhile, he wakes her up and she is excited to see him. They talk for awhile about school and how he got kicked out for failing and how his parents will react and that he wants to head west out of New York. His parents come home so he hides in the closet and waits a bit, gives her his red hunting had and leaves and goes to Mr. Antolinis. The next day, she receives a letter from Holden at school that tells her to meet him at the museum to give her back the money she gave him. She shows up with a suitcase and tells him that she will go with him. So they go into the museum then to the zoo and at the zoo, she goes on the carousel and Holden sits on a bench watching Phoebe having fun, he was so happy he almost started to cry.
Mr. Antolini:
Mr. Antolini is good friends with Holden’s parents and Holden goes to there house for a night after seeing Phoebe. He has a several and strong worded talk with him and they talk about how Holden should take school more seriously and the conversation gets pretty heated. At the end of the night, Mr. Antolini makes up the couch for him and lets him sleep. In the middle of the night, Holden wakes up and finds Mr. Antolini stroking his hair and finds it homosexual and leaves.
Sunny:
Sunny is a young prostitute that Maurice found for Holden. As she started getting undressed, he told her he couldn’t have sex because he just had an operation. So she told him it would be 10 dollars but she only received 5. Later that evening, she would return with Maurice and Maurice would lie on top of him while Sunny would get the money from his wallet.
Jane: Jane was someone who made Holden feels special, when they would hang out, they would hold hands and that would make him really happy. He remembers one day when they were playing checkers, her dad came out and yelled at her looking for his cigarettes and she wouldn’t answer him, then he went back inside and she started to cry then Holden kissed her softly.
Sally Hayes:
Sally is a girl that Holden calls the next morning after the incident with Sunny and Maurice, and he asks Sally if she would like to go out later that evening. They meet at the hotel, and take a taxi to a play then to go ice skating at “Radio City”.
Robert Ackley:
Is Holden’s next door neighbor in the dorm, always comes into his room uninvited, pops pimples, cuts finger and toe nails all over the place, asks the same questions over and over again, talks about sexual relationships of the summer before, and hates Stradlater.
Stradlater:
Comes back from the football game and gets cleaned up for his date with Jane Gallagher. Holden isn’t happy with Stradlater when he tells him that he has a date with “Jean” and not Jane showing he doesn’t have any emotions for her. He tell Stradlater a story about his summer home back in Maine when she was his neighbor and how they use to play checkers, but Stradlater wasn’t to interested and was occupied shaving. Stradlater asked Holden to write his English assignment for him, he had to describe something. When Stradlater returns from his date, he reads when Holden wrote about his brother Allies baseball glove and is mad at Holden so Holden rips it up, and they start fighting when suddenly Stradlater punches Holden in the nose and he start bleeding. Holden decides to go in Ackley’s room knowing his roommate was gone for the weekend and sleeps there.

SOURCES
The book,
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catcher/
http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/catcher.html
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/Catcher.html#Characters
http://www.homework-online.com/tcitr/index.html
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/The-Catcher-in-the-Rye.id-53.html