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《麦田里的守望者》一书，是2O世纪50年代时期美国青少年的代言人。在这部中篇小说中，杰罗姆•大卫•塞林格塑造了一位名叫霍尔顿•考尔菲尔德的男主人公。在那个时代，美国糜烂的物质生活早已摧毁了人们的精神世界。生活在那样的环境中，霍尔顿开始拒绝成长的来临，并于圣诞前夕揣着对成人世界完美的追寻只身踏上了纽约的路途。本文通过探究主人公叛逆个性的表现及其成因，批判了当时的美国社会,以此告诫青少年一代适者才能生存的法则。10827
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关键词：《麦田里的守望者》；霍尔顿•考尔菲尔德；叛逆性格
Abstract
The Catcher in the Rye stands as the spokesman of American teenagers in 1950s. In this novel, Jerome David Salinger creates a male protagonist Holden Caulfield. During that era, the material-oriented American society sterilizes people’s spirit. Resulting from this concrete situation, Holden refuses to grow up and he experiences adventures before Christmas in New York alone with his pursuit towards the perfect adult world. By exploring the behaviors and causes of Holden Caulfield’s rebellious personality, this paper criticizes the current American society and at the same time, it tells teenagers a rule that survival is the best.
Key words: The Catcher in the Rye; Holden Caulfield; rebellious personality
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. Holden Caulfield Rebellious Character Performance 2
2.1 Obscure Behavior and Dressing 2
2.2 Lying and Deception 4
2.3 Rebellion against the Educational System 4
2.4 Rebellion against the Conventional Language and Structures 5
III. The Analysis of Holden’s Rebellion 7
3.1 Social Factors Leading to Holden’s Rebellion 7
3.2 Family Factors Leading to Holden’s Rebellion 8
3.3 School Factors Leading to Holden’s Rebellion 8
IV. The Result of Holden’s Rebellion—Compromise 10
4.1 Holden’s Limitation 10
4.2 Holden’s Rebirth: Gaining a New Self 11
V. Conclusion 13
Bibliography 14
Acknowledgements 15
摘 要 Holden’s Rebellious Psychology in The Catcher in the Rye
I. Introduction
Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010), a distinguished American novelist and short story writer, is regarded as one of the most famous and influential American writers after World War II. In his lifetime, Salinger publishes only one novel and a small amount of short stories. Though the number of his works is limited, “Salinger was, at least between 1951 and 1963, the most popular American fiction writer among serious young persons and many alienated adults because of the way in which he served as a spokesman for the feelings of his generation” (Vinson 1060). He is best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate success and won huge international fame after its publishing in 1951. It has never been out of print, has sold millions of copies worldwide, has been translated into more than thirty languages, and still sells roughly 250,000 copies annually. Originally published for adults, it became popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, anxiety, alienation, language and rebellion.
Surprisingly, the critical and scholarly response to The Catcher in the Rye is striking. The literary critics praise is as much as abuse since its publication.
Some critics warmly welcomed it. For example, Nash k. Burger called The Catcher in the Rye “an unusually brilliant first novel” and Paul Engle, in the Chicago Tribune, found it “engaging and believable” a novel “full of right observation and sharp insight” Other critics were less enthusiastic about it. Virgilia Peterson, writing in New York Herald Tribune, expressed misgivings about Salinger’s language: the novel “repeats and repeats, like an incantation, the pseudo-natural cadences of a flat, colloquial prose which at best, banked down and understated, has a truly moving impact and at worst is casually obscene”. In the Catcher in the Rye, Salinger expressed the ambivalence, sadness and anger of the youngsters in the 1950s by an impressive hero Holden, who liked wearing his red hunting hat back to front.