The Catcher in the Rye

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I think that this excerpt sums up the writing style pretty well:

pp: 81-82. "I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. Girls aren't too much help, either, when you start trying not to get too crumby, when you start trying not to spoil anything really good. I knew this one girl, acouple of years ago, that was even crumbier than I was. Boy, was she crumby! We had a lot of fun, though, for a while, in a crumby way.

I find repetition is a great writing tool. To each his own, I guess. Here, I think, it works to a great effect.

I think that repetition is a crumby writing tool.

Or maybe its just that I think Holden is a tool.