Catcher in the rye quotation?

Karie Mavle: Any big fans of the novel already know how to figure out the exact year of the story â€" check out Chapter Five when Holden's talking about Allie's baseball mitt. He says Allie died on July 18, 1946 when Allie was eleven and Holden was thirteen. Back in Chapter Two, Holden mentioned that he's seventeen now (as he's telling us the story) and was sixteen "last year around Christmas" when he left Pencey and bummed around the city for a while. So the year of the December New York City escapades is either 1948 or 1949, depending on 1) when Holden's birthday falls and 2) what the exact date is of his story-telling. It follows that the year of seventeen-year-old Holden telling us his story is either 1949 or 1950.From Shmoop Lit/Setting/Catcher in the Rye...Show more

Ilana Gaster: When he's dancing with the girls in the Lavendar Room there are a lot of references to 1940s style. He talks about "jitterbugging" as a form of dancing common then. He criticizes ho! w one of the girls calls a clarinet a "licorice stick" and how the musician played some "cool licks" which are jazz terms made common in the era. He also mentions some celebs from the time, including Peter Lorre, and maybe Gary Cooper, I believe. I'd reread this section for the best examples....Show more

Annabell Bevier: The best I can come up with is Holden's grimly comic, suicidal assertion that he is "glad they've got the atomic bomb invented" and that he intends to volunteer for the next war. That argues a sensibility unaware of the larger consequences of nuclear explosions which were really evident only after John Hershey's 1945 publication of _Hiroshima_ in _the New Yorker,_ or its appearance in book form from Knopf the following year. Moreover, there haven't been a lot of tests of the bomb so he doesn't associate it with the cold war, only with war itself.The quotes comes at the end of a chapter in the middle of the book....Show more