Post by thethoughtpolice on Apr 18, 2011 11:39:40 GMT
Catcher Revision
Catcher in the Rye – Key Quotations
Thomsen Hill
“I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill”
“practically the whole school except me was there”
“The whole team ostracized me” (The fencing team made him feel isolated)
The Ducks
“I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”
"If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?"
The Hotel in New York
“the hotel was lousy with perverts. I was probably the only normal bastard in the whole place”
“It smelled like fifty million dead cigars.”
Red Hunting Hat
“This is a people shooting hat”
"I shoot people in this hat."
The Museum
“Boy, that museum was full of glass cases. There were even more upstairs, with deer inside them drinking at water holes, and birds flying south for the winter.”
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.”
“The only thing that would be different would be you.”
“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway.”
“Then a funny thing happened. When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn't have gone inside for a million bucks.”
The Catcher in the Rye
“"If a body catch a body coming through the rye."”
"It's if a body meet a body coming through the rye."
Sum this one up rather than use the full quotation:
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
The Carousel
“All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse.”
“The thing with kids is, if they want to grab the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.”
Extra Quotations
Phonies
Stradlater - “He thought he was the handsomest guy in the Western Hemisphere.”
Sunny
“I felt more depressed than sexy”
“She had a tiny little wheeny-whiny voice.”
“It sounded like a real kid.”
Mr Antolini
"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall.”
“he was sort of petting me or patting me on the goddam head.”
“I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.”
“I wondered if just maybe I was wrong about thinking be was making a flitty pass at me.”
Catcher in the Rye – Key Quotations
Thomsen Hill
“I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill”
“practically the whole school except me was there”
“The whole team ostracized me” (The fencing team made him feel isolated)
The Ducks
“I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”
"If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?"
The Hotel in New York
“the hotel was lousy with perverts. I was probably the only normal bastard in the whole place”
“It smelled like fifty million dead cigars.”
Red Hunting Hat
“This is a people shooting hat”
"I shoot people in this hat."
The Museum
“Boy, that museum was full of glass cases. There were even more upstairs, with deer inside them drinking at water holes, and birds flying south for the winter.”
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.”
“The only thing that would be different would be you.”
“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway.”
“Then a funny thing happened. When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn't have gone inside for a million bucks.”
The Catcher in the Rye
“"If a body catch a body coming through the rye."”
"It's if a body meet a body coming through the rye."
Sum this one up rather than use the full quotation:
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
The Carousel
“All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse.”
“The thing with kids is, if they want to grab the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.”
Extra Quotations
Phonies
Stradlater - “He thought he was the handsomest guy in the Western Hemisphere.”
Sunny
“I felt more depressed than sexy”
“She had a tiny little wheeny-whiny voice.”
“It sounded like a real kid.”
Mr Antolini
"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall.”
“he was sort of petting me or patting me on the goddam head.”
“I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.”
“I wondered if just maybe I was wrong about thinking be was making a flitty pass at me.”