The Catcher in the Rye Allusions & Cultural References

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.

Literature

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)

>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)