Allusions - Analysis, The Catcher in the Rye | The Catcher in the Rye- Summary, Themes & Characters - Novels PDF Download

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

• Beowulf (2.31, 15.20)
• "Lord Randal" (2.31, 15.20)
• Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (3.4)
• Ring Lardner (3.4, 18.7)
• Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native (3.4, 15.18, 15.20)
• Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (3.4)
• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (15.20-27)
• William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (15.20)
• Robert Burns, "Comin Thro' the Rye" (16.3, 22.51-55)
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (16.6)
• Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (18.5)
• Rupert Brooke (18.7)
• Emily Dickinson (18.7)
• Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (18.7)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (18.7)

Historical Figures

• Benedict Arnold (21.27, 25.56, 25.65)
• Wilhelm Stekel (24.54, 24.56)

Pop Culture

• The Atlantic Monthly (2.3)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (4.1)
• Song of India (4.1)
• The Ziegfeld Follies (4.16)
• Cary Grant (5.6)
• Vogue (8.50)
• The Baker's Wife (10.3)
• Raimu (10.3)
• The 39 Steps (10.3)
• Robert Donat (10.3)
• Peter Lorre (10.23, 10.30)
• Gary Cooper (10.43)
• The Lunts (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) (16.6)
• Sir Laurence Olivier (16.6)
• The Saturday Evening Post (17.6)