Salinger also describes Holden as depressed and stressed out all the time. Whenever he doesn't really get what he wants, he always thinks negatively and gets depressed. At times when Holden gets excited of his plan or something, he sort of yells, which makes things even worse, especially if that plan is horrible. Basically, the author uses tone to display Holden's perspective of life, and his reactions to it.
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Catcher in the Rye: Tone
The author uses tone heavily in this story. The reason is to describe the main character, Holden's, tone, or his view of life. Holden is extremely cynical, which is the main point the author wanted to describe. Many of his descriptions include mildly bad words to show Holden's attitude towards things/events that happen to him.
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I think that your "why" is very accurate to what is being put across in the story and how the author uses tone to make an impression of Holden on the readers.
ReplyDeleteSame here, but one suggestion, be more assertive, don't say "sort of" Mrs. Gilman, my wi-fi is messed up, so I really hope this posts
ReplyDeletei think that you describe the reason why the author used the tone very well and you did a good job.
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