Minor Character Influence In "The Catcher in the Rye"

In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, there is a variety of minor characters. Jane Gallagher, one of the many minor characters, lived next door to Holden Caulfield when they were younger. When Holden and Jane lived next to each other, they would play checkers all the time. “Yeah. She wouldn’t move any of her kings. What she’d do, when she’d get a king, she wouldn’t move it. She’d just leave it in the back row. She’d get them all lined up in the back row. Then she’d never use them. She just liked the way they looked when they were all in the back row.”(32) The reason Jane would do this was not to help the game, but was because she was a ...