Practice Diction Analysis

J. D. Salinger’s loutish and reverberating style in his excerpt from Catcher in the Rye, expresses the narrator’s unenthusiastic and lethargic attitude towards his own life and world in general.The narrator begins by addressing the desire of readers to know more about his "lousy childhood" in which he doesn't want to describe because "that stuff bores" him. His outlook displays the disconnection and unwilling relationship between his parents and himself. The only history the narrator seems to inform the reader about is "madman stuff" that happened to him before he becomes "pretty run-down." His cloistered approach to most people, even his family, implies that he is guarded and informs about most anyone or anything, except for himself. Aside from his connections with family the narrator reveals a pessimistic attitude towards the place he lives describing it as a "crumby place." Clearly, the narrator isn't satisfied with his current situation, from his public relations to living situations.