: is the narrator; teenager; prep school kid; swears a lot; possibly gay; always getting into trouble; pays a prostitute to talk; talks in a passive voice; smoking addict; alcoholic; liar; irritable;

D.B. Caulfield: Holden's older brother; writer; works in Hollywood as a screenwriter; was in the war on D-day

Selma Thurmer: Headmaster's daughter; not the prettiest girl; isn't arrogant.

Robert Tichener & Paul Campbell: students at Pency that got in trouble with Holden.

Mr. Zambesi: biology teacher.

Mrs. Spencer: teacher's wife; poor compared to Holden; deaf; optimistic/peppy.

Mr. Spencer: History teacher; worries about Holden; has the flu.

Dr. Thurmer: headmaster of Pency.

Mr. Hass: headmaster of Elkton Hills; phony.

Ossenburger: a former student of Pency; a donator to Pency; rich; arrogant; phony.

Marsalla: student at Pency.

Ward Stradlater: Holden's roommate; not a nice guy; beats up Holden; senior.

Robert Ackley: Holden's neighbor in the dorms; no sense of hygiene; annoying; no sense of personal space; senior.

: Holden's ex-neighbor, likes playing checkers; Stradlater's girlfriend by last resort; dancer; parents divorced; stepfather is a nudist and a drunk.

Mel Brossard: Holden's friend; wrestler; likes bridge.

: Holden's little brother; dies of leukemia at the age of 11; Holden didn't react well to that.

Ely: Ackley's roommate who goes home every weekend.

Ed Banky: Basketball coach; bends the rules; lets Stradlater use his car to have sex with girls.

Leahy and Hoffman: students that live on the same floor Holden does.

Holden's mom: hysterical; nice; touchy; bought him the wrong kind of skates; nervous; "sick".

Holden's dad: rich; failed projects; ex-catholic.

Holden's grandmother: crazy; wealthy; send Holden birthday money four times a year.

Ernest Morrow: Jerk; weirdo; thinks he's all that.

Morrow's mother: knows nothing about her son; nice; non-phony; sexy; polite.

Faith Cavendish: prostitute; burlesque stripper.

Eddie Birdsell: Holden's acquaintance; brought Faith to a Princeton party.

: smart; skinny; pretty; Knows what good and not; very emotional; affectionate; stubborn.

Bernice: Blonde; good dancer; stupid.

Marty: corny; stupid; foolish.

Laverne: witty; stupid; repetitive.

Mr.Cudahy: boozehound; Jane's stepfather; asks stupid questions; walks around naked.

Ernie: owner of a nightclub; snob; pianist; phony.

Horwitz: a cab driver; sore.

Lillian Simmons: D.B.'s old girlfriend; fake; unliked; condensing.

Commander Blop: navy; pansy; Lillian's date.

Sunny: prostitute; nervous; impatient.

Maurice: liar; elevator man; moron; bully; pimp; cheater

Nun 1: English teacher; wire glass; nice; pretty; big nose.

Nun 2: History teacher.

Dick Slagle: poor; inferiority complex; likes saying bourgeois; humorous.

Louis Shaney: Catholic; likes tennis.

Gertrude Levine: a creepy kid in Holden class when she was a kid; always wanted to hold hands.

Harris Macklin: intelligent; bore; raspy voice; never stops talking; good whistler.

: likes the Lunts, snotty; snobby; phony; realist; pessimistic;

George: phony; girl's voice; preppy; jerk; attempted girl snatching.

Carl Luce: fat; smart; conceited; "big shot", Student advisor.

Tina: piano player; French.

Janine: singer; French; poor English.

Valencia: singer; better than Janine, ignored Holden.

Piano player: poor piano player; blonde; cranky; witty; handsome.

The girl at the checkout: nice; liked his hat; considerate.

: swanky; poetic;

Mrs. Lillian Antolini: old; older than Antolini; smoke aholic.