What is a literary device that can be found in The Catcher In The Rye? Include the page number and the chapter.

An allusion is a tool used to make a reference to someone or something that the audience might already know about or understand. For example, if an author says that a character is as strong as Stonewall Jackson, s/he would be referring to a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger employs an allusion in chapter 22 with a song first experienced in chapter 16. 

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An allusion is a tool used to make a reference to someone or something that the audience might already know about or understand. For example, if an author says that a character is as strong as Stonewall Jackson, s/he would be referring to a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger employs an allusion in chapter 22 with a song first experienced in chapter 16. 

First, in chapter 22, Holden Caulfield is talking with his sister Phoebe about how he was kicked out of school again. Holden tells her what he would really like to do in life in the following passage:

". . . I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be" (173).

By saying that he only wants to be the catcher in the rye, Holden refers to the title of the book as well as the title of a song he hears in chapter 16. The use of this allusion calls attention to the message or theme of the book for the reader. For example, Holden gets the idea of the catcher in the rye when he hears a boy singing and humming the song while he passes them on the streets of New York:

I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. He was singing that song, "If a body catch a body coming through the rye." He had a pretty little voice, too. He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell (115).

The use of allusions is a literary device applied by an author to call the reader's attention to a specific theme or idea. In this case, the idea centers around who Holden wants to become. Some interpret this allusion as Holden wanting to help others from falling off the cliff of childhood into adulthood. Others say he wants to help people from falling off of the cliff of integrity and becoming phonies. Whatever the interpretation, the allusion still exists for the benefit of the reader to make connections from the text to themselves and and also to the world.