He says, "I hate the movies like a poison, but I get a bang imitating them. Phonies 4: Holden himself often acquires a strained, sarcastic phoniness, either as a joke or when he is upset with someone. When Ackley refuses to let the beat-up Holden sleep in his roommate's empty bed, Holden calls him "a real prince" and gives him a big phony handshake. Phonies 5: Although Holden doesn't directly call Ernie, the piano player, a phony, he senses phoniness and insincerity in his flashy piano-playing style.
Holden thinks Ernie is too fine a piano player but no longer plays his music with heart. Phonies 6: When Holden sees the faces of boys he fights and of Sunny, the prostitute, both are disturbing. So in a way, he's in a tough spot.
He can't deal with the phoniness that masks humanity, but he can't deal with looking at this humanity straight on, either. Phonies 7: Holden's summary of his conversation with Sally Hayes indicates that he might find her a bit of a phony, too. He shows himself as willing to overlook this a bit, however, by asking her out for a date. When it comes down to it, Holden would rather take the chance at having a genuine interaction with someone than dismiss him or her as a phony.
Phonies 8: The date with Sally Hayes is drenched in phoniness. The actors in the play strike Holden as phony and Sally's phony friend monopolizes her during both intermissions. Phonies 9: When Holden is explaining the ways of Pencey Prep to his sister Phoebe, his judgments indicate his thoughts about such schools - they're phony places and their main goal is to prepare students to become adequately phony to survive in the adult world.
Phonies In later chapters of the novel, Holden backs off of criticizing everything as phony a bit. His focus seems to shift to a concern over how to keep the world of children innocent. What was the "big mess " Holden got into when he got back to the hotel after being at Ernie's?
He got roped into buying a prostitute and ended up getting punched by the pimp, Maurice. After Carl leaves the Wicker Bar , Holden stays and gets obnoxiously drunk. After disrupting her sleep and irritating her grandmother, Holden goes back into the men's room of the Wicker Bar and soaks his head in cold water. Overwhelmed with loneliness, Holden is in tears by the time he leaves to get his coat.
When Holden gets very depressed, he sometimes talks "sort of out loud" to his younger brother. He does so after Sunny leaves. His communication with Allie is almost religious, a confession of Holden's boyhood lack of consideration for the kid. Holden 's fixation on the ducks in the Central Park lagoon represents his fear of change. When he worries about where the ducks go during the wintertime, he finds himself unsettled by the idea that they have to alter their lives in order to survive.
Who is Lillian Simmons in Catcher in the Rye? Category: sports baseball. Just then a girl with a terrific body named Lillian Simmons greets Holden by name and comes over to this table.
She used to date Holden's brother D. Lillian asks about D. What made Holden cry in Chapter 14? Why is Jane so special to Holden? How is Holden a phony in Chapter 9? How did Holden feel when he used to hold hands with Jane? Why does Holden call himself yellow? Lillian Simmons, a former girlfriend of D.
Holden declines her invitation to join them, saying he was just leaving. The cab driver's name is Horwitz. He is a grouchy, somewhat twisted amateur zoologist, but at least he is willing to entertain Holden's inquiry about where the ducks in Central Park go in winter.
Actually, Horwitz prefers to discuss the fish. He gruffly declares that the fish have a tougher time than the ducks. Fish spend the winter frozen in the ice, according to Horwitz. They take in nourishment through the pores in their bodies. His opinions are amusing, but the comic aspects of the scene depend more on the nature of the dialogue.
Holden and Horwitz sound like two old antagonists who have had this discussion a hundred times before and jump on each other's lines as ancient acquaintances do when excited about a controversial topic. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Catcher in the Rye , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
When he asks about the ducks in the Central Park lagoon , Horwitz becomes angry at the stupidity of his question, shouting that the fish have it worse than the ducks, since they have no choice but to stay in the frozen water. Horwitz seemingly recognizes this, which is why he concerns himself with the fish, since the fish have no choice but to simply hunker down and deal with the winter.
Active Themes. Childhood and Growing Up. As Joe Yale tells this story to his date, he attempts to slide his hand up her skirt. As Holden takes in the scene, a young woman named Lillian Simmons approaches him. Lillian used to date D.
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