Argument: Pointing out the several times that J.D. Salinger uses extreme irony the article attempts to explain one of the reasons why stories like The Catcher in the rye are so widely critisized in so many differing ways. Claims: J.D. Salinger uses irony to a great extent and sometimes goes as far as to say the opposite of the intent to portray his intended thoughts. Evidence: "Orville Prescott wrote in The New York Times in 1963, "Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation.""
Claims: J.D. Salinger uses irony to a great extent and sometimes goes as far as to say the opposite of the intent to portray his intended thoughts.
Evidence: "Orville Prescott wrote in The New York Times in 1963, "Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation.""
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?pagewanted=all