The characteristicx of the narrative discurse in j.d.salinger s prose

in the catcher in the rye, the narrative order of the events holden recounts is changed. the novel is not a formal autobiography, since holden, the narrator, does not go into all that david copperfield kid or crap1, in his story, he insists upon this madman stuff that happened to me around last christmas2.
the novel can be viewed as a flashback analepsis explaining how he got pretty run down and had to come out here and take it easy3 up to the end of the novel, the reader doesnt quite find out what holden means by out here. this device is called by rolland barthes the hermeneutic code - the means by which a mystery is, in this case, postponed by partial answers.
holden gives the account of this madman stuff that happened to him by using the past tense, but the narration of events is often interrupted by comments in the present tense. he uses the present tense to express his views, to establis...