... the author's criticisms about Salinger's classic novel. The novel The Catcher in the Rye embraces the post war times of the 1950's. The author, J.D. Salinger broadens the reader's horizons for different historical time frames. Salinger puts the reader into Holden's shoes as Holden puts fourth his criticisms towards post-war society in the United States. Adolescents can relate to many criticisms Holden ... difficulty with relationships, intimacy as his difficulty in calling Jane Gallagher, and his date with Sally Hayes, which went terribly wrong because of his rudeness. Adolescents can r...

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... playwrights and poems portrayed him as loving and intelligent. Many authors in literature, such as J.D. Salinger, have focused on having their characters use a distinct language to make them unique. One of his characters, Holden Caulfield, has a very pessimistic diction which made him special. In the bildungsroman Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden's trouble and insecure personality is modeled ... by his unique speech and diction in that he has an idiosyncratic speech pattern, uses certain grammar, crude language, and has an adaptable vocabulary. Holden Caulfield ... of educatio...

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