J.D. Salinger writes conversationally in Catcher In The Rye, he often makes use of technically incorrect grammar and untraditional punctuation, such as dashes. In this work I attempted to mimic Holden's style but not his character necessarily. The allusion to The Royal Tennenbaums reflects Holden’s tendency to reference outside works, though Holden would never use a film as a positive comparison due to his hatred of hollywood. A symptom of Salinger’s stream of consciousness style is Holden’s habit of continuing the same thought for many sentences, or simply stretching the same sentence out for a long as possible. In both cases he will use plenty of connecting phrases. He also uses nontraditional conjunctions such as sonuvabitch. Though
