Agerstown is a town in Pennsylvania where Holden Caulfield's school Pencey Preparatory School is located.
Sally Hayes: a very attractive girl whom Holden has known and dated for a long time.
matinee: a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon
tempt: to cause to be strongly inclined
edgewise: sideways
cadet: a person in training for a military or naval commission
hung up: anxiously nervous
modesty: the quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities
beat one's brains out: to try intently to resolve something difficult by thinking
fortune: a very large sum of money
king's ransom: a very large sum of money
spendthrift: a person who spends improvidently or wastefully
Sample sentence: Here's your change, Sir.
Broadway: the New York commercial theater and amusement world
flop: to change or turn suddenly
ax: quit school
bacon: DJ[ˋbeikən]
nun: a woman belonging to a religious order
convent: a local community or house of a religious order or congregation
congregation: a religious community
The location of Elkton Hills is not mentioned in the novel. At this preparatory school, Holden remembers rooming with a guy named Dick Slagle whose suitcase was of an inferior quality to his own.
Rack; a framework, stand, or grating on or in which articles are placed
Mark Cross is an American luxury leather goods brand.
cowhide: leather made from this hide
leather: DJ[ˋleðə]
penny: a similar monetary unit of any of various other countries in or formerly in the Commonwealth of Nations
snotty: snooty: showing disdain
disdain: a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior
comtempt: lack of respect or reverence for something
reverence: honor or respect felt or shown
bourgeois: of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
Stradlater is Holden’s roommate at Pencey.
strike up: (pt) struck up: to cause to begin
strike up a conversation
straw basket: a basket made of wickerwork
wickerwork: work consisting of interlaced pliable twigs or branches
uptown: the residential district of a city or town
Eustacia Vye, fictional character, a beautiful, sensual young woman who marries Clym Yeobright in the novel The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy.
