Jane

Since I was thinking about Stradlater for my last blog I started thinking back on the Catcher in the Rye. One other character I thought of was Jane Gallagher. She is very important to the story and Holden’s character. She is like one of the most important girls in Holden’s life. She is really the only girl that he can stand to be around. It is weird though because he never sees her in the course of the novel. I can imagine that she is very attractive but not very fake just because I think that the kind of girl that Holden would like. When they were younger, Holden and Jane would play checkers because they lived close to each other. This seems to be very important to Holden because he keeps mentioning how she would keep her back row in their place for the entire game. I think this is really like the girl of Holden’s dreams because he talks about her all of the time. Its hard to tell if she really likes Holden as much as he likes her. I think that she obviously likes him as a friend but in all reality that could be the only way that she really likes him. I can imagine that she is quite attractive. She basically has to be a babe because I don’t think Holden would go for an ugly chick; although Holden could really only care about her personality. She obviously can see past people’s fakeness like Holden because she can stand to be around Holden. I think a lot of people are annoyed by Holden and the way he acts just because it seems like he could be quite the jerk. She can probably see that Holden just doesn’t like how a lot of people are and she appreciates this. So in conclusion Jane Gallagher is a really nice person that in my opinion is most likely a babe as well.