All that David Copperfield Crap

Dicken's style is very autobiographical, taking the reader through the steps of how things got here and there and why. When Salinger references David Copperfield, he has previously said he isn't interested in going through everything that lead up to that point in the story. I feel like that makes a story more mysterious and also makes the reader think about what is happening and what it can mean based off only the short pieces they have knowledge of from the beginning of the book. Salinger does this to show this is a different kind of book, not something a classic reader would expect, so maybe if their was a classic reader reading it they would stop before they expected something that Salinger wasn't interested in sharing. It also reaches out to a different audience and could lead to a new way of writing that was different that what was common at the time.