The present paper is to treat the uses of hell and its euphemisms in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. We have, in all, 259 instances of hell and its euphemisms quoted from our text and we are going to arrange them according to their patterns....
The present paper is to treat the uses of hell and its euphemisms in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. We have, in all, 259 instances of hell and its euphemisms quoted from our text and we are going to arrange them according to their patterns.
There are a number of forms of swearwords or improper words in English: bastard, damn, devil, hell, etc. plus their variants, combinations, and euphemisms. We shall not refer to the details of them here because our main subject is the use of hell. We shall mention the meaning of swearword before taking up our subject.