Catcher In The Rye Dialectical Journal
Cesar Otamendi
The Catcher in the Rye Maxims
-Chapter 1
M: “It’s important to say goodbye.”
CD: Holden is leaving Pency and remembers chucking a football around with some guys. The memory makes him feel better about being kicked out.
-Chapter 2
M: “Life is a game.”
CD: Holden is talking to Spencer, who tells him that life is a game and that you need to follow the rules in order to succeed in it.
-Chapter 3
M: “Everyone has at least one good quality.”
CD: When Holden is speaking with Ackley, he mentions that although Stradlater is cocky and conceited, he is very generous.
-Chapter 4
M: “People use excuses to make up for their flaws.”
CD: Stradlater asked Holden to write a composition for him because he said he was lousy …show more content…
-Chapter 6
M: “People hate it when you insult them.”
CD: Holden is insulting Stradlater by calling him a moron and Stradlater gets angry at him.
-Chapter 7
M: “Saying goodbye can be heartbreaking.”
CD: Holden starts sort of crying when he took his last look down the corridor because he is going to miss Pency even though he hates the place.
-Chapter 8
M: “Mothers are blinded from love to their child’s faults.”
CD: Holden talks to Mrs. Morrow who seemed like she might not know how terrible of a person her son was,
-Chapter 9
M: “If you don’t have the mentality to do something, then you won’t do it to the best of your abilities.”
CD: Holden was going to call Jane’s school and pretend like he was her uncle but he didn’t do it because he knew he would mess up because he wasn’t in the …show more content…
-Chapter 11
M: “Women never reveal their problems.”
CD: Holden remembers one day when Jane was crying and he never found out what the problem was.
-Chapter 12
M: “If you want to make it in the world, you have to say polite things.”
CD: Holden saw Lillian Simmons and her date at Ernie’s. Holden tells her date that he was glad to have met him when in reality he hated meeting him.
-Chapter 13
M: “If you’re depressed, then you won’t be able to think clearly.”
CD: Holden says that he requested the prostitute because he was feeling very depressed and wasn’t thinking.
-Chapter 14
M: “The movies can ruin your mind.”
CD: Holden is implying that the movies gave him the idea of how he would kill Maurice if he could.
-Chapter 15
M: “Money makes people sad.”
CD: Holden felt sad about the amount of money he gave to the nuns for their collection.
-Chapter 16
M: “Certain things should never change.”
CD: Holden talks about how Phoebe would always see the same things that he has seen in the museum. These things will always be the same but every time she would see them she would be
The Catcher in the Rye Maxims
-Chapter 1
M: “It’s important to say goodbye.”
CD: Holden is leaving Pency and remembers chucking a football around with some guys. The memory makes him feel better about being kicked out.
-Chapter 2
M: “Life is a game.”
CD: Holden is talking to Spencer, who tells him that life is a game and that you need to follow the rules in order to succeed in it.
-Chapter 3
M: “Everyone has at least one good quality.”
CD: When Holden is speaking with Ackley, he mentions that although Stradlater is cocky and conceited, he is very generous.
-Chapter 4
M: “People use excuses to make up for their flaws.”
CD: Stradlater asked Holden to write a composition for him because he said he was lousy …show more content…
-Chapter 6
M: “People hate it when you insult them.”
CD: Holden is insulting Stradlater by calling him a moron and Stradlater gets angry at him.
-Chapter 7
M: “Saying goodbye can be heartbreaking.”
CD: Holden starts sort of crying when he took his last look down the corridor because he is going to miss Pency even though he hates the place.
-Chapter 8
M: “Mothers are blinded from love to their child’s faults.”
CD: Holden talks to Mrs. Morrow who seemed like she might not know how terrible of a person her son was,
-Chapter 9
M: “If you don’t have the mentality to do something, then you won’t do it to the best of your abilities.”
CD: Holden was going to call Jane’s school and pretend like he was her uncle but he didn’t do it because he knew he would mess up because he wasn’t in the …show more content…
-Chapter 11
M: “Women never reveal their problems.”
CD: Holden remembers one day when Jane was crying and he never found out what the problem was.
-Chapter 12
M: “If you want to make it in the world, you have to say polite things.”
CD: Holden saw Lillian Simmons and her date at Ernie’s. Holden tells her date that he was glad to have met him when in reality he hated meeting him.
-Chapter 13
M: “If you’re depressed, then you won’t be able to think clearly.”
CD: Holden says that he requested the prostitute because he was feeling very depressed and wasn’t thinking.
-Chapter 14
M: “The movies can ruin your mind.”
CD: Holden is implying that the movies gave him the idea of how he would kill Maurice if he could.
-Chapter 15
M: “Money makes people sad.”
CD: Holden felt sad about the amount of money he gave to the nuns for their collection.
-Chapter 16
M: “Certain things should never change.”
CD: Holden talks about how Phoebe would always see the same things that he has seen in the museum. These things will always be the same but every time she would see them she would be