The Catcher in the Rye

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The Catcher in the Rye (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

The Story:

Holden Caulfield was expelled from Pencey Prep, in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, just before Christmas. Before leaving his preparatory school, Holden said good-bye to Mr. Spencer, one of the Pencey teachers with whom he had good rapport, and had an altercation with his roommate, Ward Stradlater, and a dormitory neighbor, Robert Ackley. A disagreement over a composition Holden had agreed to write for Stradlater and Holden’s anger with Stradlater’s treatment of the latter’s weekend date, whom Holden knew and liked, precipitated a fight in which Holden was cut and...

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• The Catcher in the Rye (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• The Catcher in the Rye (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
• The Catcher in the Rye (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• The Catcher in the Rye (Magill Book Reviews)
• The Catcher in the Rye (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
• The Catcher in the Rye (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
• The Catcher in the Rye (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

See Also:

• J. D. Salinger (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• J. D. Salinger (Short Fiction)
• J. D. Salinger (Long Fiction)
• J. D. Salinger (Dictionary of World Biography)
• J. D. Salinger (Identities and Issues)

See Also:

• - For teachers, the The Catcher in the Rye Lesson Plan.
• - The Catcher in the Rye summary and study guide in the eNotes.