P.O.V of catcher in the rye

The Catcher in the Rye Ashley Page

Essay


After reading the novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger, I felt sorry for Holden Caulfield, the main character, and felt a need to help him. The reason I felt this way is because the text influences you to have this point of view. The Author can portray Holden as lonely and mentally unstable very easily by writing the book in first person point of view, which Salinger did. By doing this he has access to many different techniques to write the novel, which include dialogue, choice of words, structure, tone, description and setting. All these techniques play a key role in influencing the readers understanding of the novel.


Holden’s dialogue in the novel is very similar to that of an ordinary teenager in the 1950’s (when the book was written) and makes Holden values and attitudes more understandable to the reader and makes the things he does and says more believable. Salinger uses this...