ALL THAT DAVID COPPERFIELD KIND OF CRAP

I believe that Salinger is trying to say that David Copperfield thought his life was so bad because he would have to share his attention and life with a stepfather and step siblings, which was "crap" compared to a lot of the things other characters experienced. Like in Catcher in the Rye, the boy has to deal with a drunken father who holds him back from many things. Salinger is showing how the story of David Copperfield is nothing and barely a problem compared to what these other characters have gone through. This compares to Great Expectations in that they all suffer problems with their parents, but in Great Expectations, Pip has no parents, whereas David Copperfield cannot be happy with a mother and stepfather. Another way I can see Salinger using this phrase for is that the boy doesn't want to get into all the problems that he faces everyday. All these young characters have similar problems, but David Copperfield and Great Expectations go into great detail about their problems and complain about them a lot, whereas in Catcher in the Rye, he doesn't want to talk about his problems. He wants to focus on getting away from them and overcoming them, rather than dwelling on them. Dickens uses a style in which he goes deep into the characters mind and what they are emotionally feeling, whereas Salinger develops a plot and a way out, rather than contemplating what is happening in the characters mind. The authors take a different approach at defining their characters. Dickens shows what is happening in the mind of the characters, so that the reader has an understanding of what type of person the character is, while Salinger uses actions to define the type of person his character is and makes it more difficult to interpret the character.