Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye: Stream of Consciousness or Internal Dialog?

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Stream of Consciousness deals more with sensory input whereas interior monologue focuses on the processing of ideas. Any good soliloquy (Hamlet . . . etc) could be held up as an example of interior monologue but stream of consciousness(SoC) doesn't handle morality or problemsolving. SoC lives inside the moment and does not consider the past or future. Interior monologue considers the moment with reflection and planning.

What style of writing do you think Salinger employed?

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Laura wrote: "This is a very interesting question for me as TCITR is my favorite book and I've been doing some writing which is quite on topic. While I would complicate your two offered choices of SoC or IM, I t..."

I have to admit that i don't feel educated enough to give an opinion.
The reason have been questioning his style was because I started finding many ideas impregnated into his text. I didn't think he was the first to do this, so i decided to read authors that inspire him and the ones that inspired those authors. Hemingway was named some where ...and he actually got his name in the book TCITR.

To make a long story short I read an amazing book called Decadence: And Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas. Then I started reading Ulysses. I actually started reading him because some one in another group challenged me. I like a challenge (because secretly I am trying to undo what school did by "grading me" average and I am trying to level up). I noticed that Ulysses was writing in a similar style. Really it was saying things with symbols or juxtaposed with other references to say whatever you wish to read into it...so it could have more than one meaning.

But I got interested in Ulysses style because Virginia Woolf said that she was disappointed that she had not been able to do this first or as good as Ulysses. (I don't remember where I read that)

I think you are right about ut taking a skilled writer to do this. But what would improve your skills but to rewrite the same story over and over for ten years?

Somebody asked David Foster Wallace what his process was to writing a book. He answered that he first wrote a draft by hand. He then wrote that draft by hand three more times. Then he typed it three times. His goal was to feel the characters come to life.

This gave me a whole new appreciation to what makes a book great.

Salinger is quoted as saying:
(The one that I wanted and couldn't find was something like: Have something you feel passionate about, that is what you should write about.)

But here are some other good ones that I found.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

There’s no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It’s all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

J. D. SALINGER, New York Times, Aug. 14, 2009


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