Practice Diction Analysis

This excerpt from Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is a noisy and dull, yet exciting piece. He explains the character's "lousy childhood" and how sensitive his parents are about personal things, which helps the piece gain it's dull, common, familiar language. Salinger uses boring, depressing words to shape his character's harsh and "crumby" living environment and how he came to live there. Salinger also uses the character's brother to enhance this "run-down" life with describing how his brother has nice things, like a Jaguar automobile. This excerpt also conveys what some families' lives are like today in the United States. Many people have "touchy" parents and are not too excited to tell about what goes on in their lives.