Re: what, exactly...?

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The question of who Holden is addressing seems to me very uninteresting.
The fact that he *is* addressing *someone is*. To me it is just Holden
Caulfield's and Salinger's variant of the very old literary device: "List=
en
to this, I am telling you a tale", which gives the story a special kind o=
f
truthfullness, well, I don't know whether this is the right word, in any
case it gives the story a special tone. Did anyone ever read Tolstoy's
'Kreutzer Sonate'? This story is told in a train by a man to his accident=
al
fellow passenger. Same effect. The question who this other man is, is
beside the point.

Paul J.

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