Catcher In The Rye -- JD Salinger

This is a carefully crafted text. Salinger adopts the persona, language and speech patterns of a west coast American teenager. Some aspects of the text create the impression that the speech is spontaneous and disorganized, Holden Caulfield repeats himself, he gets side tracked about his brother and divulging “pretty personal stuff” about his parents, and he doubles back on himself, about his brother in Hollywood, mentioning it halfway through the text, “D.B … my brother. …

…is the set of morals Holden chooses to use. He respects the fact that his parents are ‘king’ and he had better not say anything bad about them but also he has his own opinion on his brother for “prostituting” his words, maybe Holden sees his brother as prostituting his ‘art’, much in the same way as die hard fans of modern bands accuse them, once they break into the main stream of, “Selling out”.