Catcher Quotes In groups, analyze the following quotations. Attempt to make connections to other parts of the text.

“I damn near gave me kid sister Phoebe a buzz, though. I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone. Somebody with sense and all” (Salinger 66).

“She’s all right. You’d like her. The only trouble is, she’s a little too affectionate sometimes” (Salinger 68).

“She [Jane] was the only one, outside my family, that I ever sowed Allie’s baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it” (Salinger 77).

“The girls I like best are the ones I never feel much like kidding. Sometimes I think they'd like it if you kidded them – in fact, I know they would – but it’s hard to get started, once you’ve known them a pretty long time and never kidded them” (Salinger 78).

“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?” (Salinger 83)

“Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me” (Salinger 86).

“I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though” (Salinger 87).

“what scares me most in a fist fight is the guy’s face. I can’t stand looking at the other guy’s face is my trouble” (Salinger 90).

“I know you’re supposed to feel pretty sexy when somebody gets up and pulls their dress over their head, but I didn’t. Sexy was about the last thing I was feeling. I felt much more depressed than sexy” (Salinger 95).

“I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up for her. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going to the store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably thought she was a regular girl” (Salinger 96).

“She was a pretty spooky kid. Even with that little bitty voice she had, she could sort of scare you a little bit. If she’d been a big old prostitute, with a lot of makeup on her face and all, she wouldn’t have been half as spooky” (Salinger 98).

“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn’t do it. I can’t always pray when I feel like it” (Salinger 99).