麦田里的守望者论文

海南师范大学

外国语学院2011级《美国文学》论文An Analysis of Holden’s Character in the Catcher in the Rye

姓名：李紫燕

学号： 201103010707

专业：英语

年级： 2011级

系别：英语系

完成日期： 2014年6月

指导教师：彭狄

An Analysis of Holden’s Character in the Catcher in the Rye

Author: Li Ziyan Supervisor: Peng Di

(Foreign Language college, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158) Abstract: Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, which is the American famous writer Jerome David Salinger’s novel, who hated the adult hypocrisy world. He wants to escape from the reality but the side of his weakness decides that he is doomed to failure. Different from other novels, the author presents an anti-hero role who is dissatisfied with reality, hating material pursuit and seeking the spiritual realm. As a rebel, he is struggling with the world. Meanwhile he is in deep love with purity of his childhood and innocence of children. More importantly, he defends children’s soul an d keeps watch the bright ideal. It analyzes further the process of catching and disillusion of his dream, including the immat urity of mind, the longing for understanding and the seeking without result. This paper centers on two major aspects to analyze characters of Holden. One is his rebellious spirit; the other is his consistent pursuit of defending purify and seeking lofty ideal. Through the person Holden, the novel expresses the contradiction between the American material life and the lack of spiritual life after the Second World War.

Key words:Dream; Weak; Catching; Phony world; Disillusion; Kindness

对麦田里的守望者的主人公霍尔顿的性格的分析

作者：李紫燕指导教师：彭狄

（海南师范大学外国语学院，海口，571158)

摘要：霍尔顿是著名杰出的小说家杰罗姆大卫塞林格写的小说《麦田里德守望者》的主人公。不同于其他的小说，作者刻画了一个对现实不满，鄙视物质的追求而去寻找精神的领域的叛逆的反英雄人物。他厌恶成年人虚伪的世界，他想要逃离这个现实，但由于性格的原因又注定了他是失败的。作者通过霍尔顿这一形象向我们展示了二战后美国青少年一部分生活及物质的丰富于精神匮乏之间的矛盾。而这一矛盾在霍尔顿身上体现的尤为明显。本文从霍尔顿的矛盾性格去分析个性特征中的两大层面。一方面是透析他个性中的反叛性；另一方面是解读他捍卫纯真，守望美好的崇高理想。

关键词：梦想；软弱；捕捉；虚假的世界；幻灭；善良

1. Introduction(一级标题是小三号，加黑，Times New Roman字体)

J.D. Salinger is recognized by many critics and readers as one of the most popular influential American writers after Second World War. He is best known for his only novel the Catcher in the Rye. The protagonist in the novel, Holden become synonymous with the sensitivity of many young Americans.

This is a book about escape. Holden tried to escape from reality when he was expelled from school, but his strength is trivial, so in the end he could not escape the limited world, but to be regard as mental illness people and to be sent to the place of nursing homes to accept the treatment of psychological experts. The end of the novel is the controversial focus of many critics on whether Holden accept the adult world.

（正文是小四号，Times New Roman, 首行缩进4字母(2个字符)，全文行间距均为1.5倍）

2. Holden’s negative character（二级及以下标题均是4号Times New Roman字体，加黑）

2.1 A Rebel against the Family

Although Holden was born in a wealthy family, he never felt proud of his family or had a close relationship with his parents. His family could only provide him money support. So the lack of family love of Holden formed his strange character. He thought that if they knew he had been expelled from school they would kill him. So what Holden could only do was to run away from school in New York street aimlessly.

2.2 A Rebel against the School

Holden is depressed at school, Pencey’s hypocritical teachers and art ificial classmates around him casts a heavy below on him, thus he feels being hurt deeply, the pain Holden suffers in school is a cause of his spiritual confusion. Although Pencey is a famous with excellent academic achievement, in Holden’s eyes, it is a s chool of “phonies and slobs”, and the students are “quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has”. The teachers only pay attention to the good academic records, but never