Daisy Caulfield Minor Character - 1424 Words

A minor character in The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, is Phoebe Caulfield, the main character, Holden’s younger sister. Holden describes his sister as not only the smartest kid in the world, but also a great dancer, and a very sympathetic listener. She’s also known as the funniest little sister ever. She is first introduced to readers when Holden says: â€Å"You d like her. I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you re talking about. I mean you can even take her anywhere with you. If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it s a lousy movie. If you take her to a pretty good movie, she knows it s a pretty good movie,† showing that the two siblings got along great (Salinger†¦show more content†¦The negative connotation is also caused by his innate anger at everything he perceives as phony, making the readers get a firm understanding of the anger that he possesses. Towards the beginning of t he story Holden narrates, â€Å"I m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. If I m on the way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I m going, I m liable to say I m going to the opera,† a couple of sentences encompassing the negativity from the teenager (Salinger 16). Phoebe Caulfield, in The Catcher In The Rye, is Holden Caulfield’s, the main character, sister. She is 10 years old and is bright, pretty, and is way mature for her age. Phoebe has r hair and is described by Holden as being roller-skate skinny, (Salinger 67). She is consider very successful in school, her best subject being spelling. One example of her intellect is when she corrects Holden with reference to some words to the Robert Burns poem which is the origin of the book’s title. There aren’t any direct comments or descriptions In the novel, because there isn’t an unbiased narrator. This is because the only narrator in the story is Holden, who v ery early in the story is not as a very unreliable narrator. Many of his descriptions and opinions are reflections of his own insecurities and opinions. In The Catcher In the Rye, there are both static and dynamic characters. One static character would be Phoebe Caulfield. This would be because at the beginning of