What tone does the author use?

  I mean all I'm going to say is that J.D Salinger is an excellent writer. The text is so full of different tones and emotions that you basically feel like you're Holden in New York City. That's how you know you're reading a good book. Anyways, the tone used throughout most of the book is very pessimistic, glum, and overall negative. But that's because its mostly always Holden talking or narrating haha.. Salinger often uses swear words, and other unkind words when Holden is angry or too busy judging someone he just met. This sort of unhappy, dismissive tone reflects what J. D Salinger thinks about certain topics and issues, such as how people are not themselves all the time, often being "phony". Certain parts of Holden also carry the authors traits as he wanted to show the world through a story the problems he see's in people everyday. In most ways I would say Holden is an edited  version of Salinger. He's also quite known for a couple of his famous quotes which state that he himself is sometimes frightened by the horrible human behaviours he has come to see. I think in this book he was trying to create a protagonist with both negative and positive traits which people can closely relate to. The overall book is meant to display various characters with different attitudes, and situations, so that people can observe and notice the things society does. These exemplars are meant to get us to use them as either things we should be doing or ways we shouldn't be acting. J.D Salinger appeals to all audiences for the reason of making every reader feel like someone from the novel in some way. The author feels a change needs to be made in how we treat one another. Salinger seems like a pretty deep guy. So insightful. :)