... 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's ... idiosyncratic speech pattern portrays his looseness and his self-consciousness in his personality. His incessant use of the phrases "and all," "or ... be because of his high level of...

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