Key Points CATCHER IN THE RYE and THE OUTSIDER

THINK ABOUT THE HONESTY THING
Holden- the 'phoniest' person in the book
'Shooting the bull'
'Tiny tumour on the brain'
'If there's one thing I hate, its the movies'
WILD HYPERBOLE

Holden is then again a PARADOX. Is open with the wrong things. Conceals the real troubling problems.
'I felt like I was sort of disappearing'
^^^ minimisation of language, masking the intensity of his emotions >>> not what Meursault does, doesn't need to

Meursault- so honest, is alienating. Loves a sun 'that leaves no shadows'. He lives his life in black and white. He thought it was the only way to face up/hold up integrity to the 'tender indifference of the world'

The voice of the novels.... the retrospective/active&passive voice

The majority of the catcher in written in RETROSPECTION... that's why it stands out that he says 'he's dead now', a present tense sentence in a retrospective novel. Allie's death is clearly still haunting him. DEFINING EMOTION: GUILT.

In The Outsider we find the passive voice dominates. Until at the end of the novel (refer to structure) we find he finally uses a flourish of the active voice showing how gains control of his life/becomes happy. "I opened myself... to the gentle indifference of the world"