1、About the book,The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst(焦虑）, alienation（疏远）, language, and rebellion（叛逆）.It has been translated into almost all of the worl
2、ds major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million. The novels protagonist（主角） and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon（偶像） for teenage rebellion.,Jan 1, 1919,born in Manhattan,1934,Transfer to Valley Forge Military Academy,1942,drafted i
3、nto the U.S. Army,Jul 16, 1951,January 27, 2010,passes away in New Hampshire,About the author,Plot Summary,It is a story about a rebellious teenage schoolboy,Holden Caulfield and his quixotic experiences in New York, taking place in December 1949.,expelled from the school,takes a train to New York,s
4、pends three days in the city,sneaks into his parents apartment to visit his younger sister,Phoebe,drops by to see English teacher, Mr. Antolini,head out west,go with him,take Phoebe to the Central Park Zoo,go home,Themes,Alienation as a Form of Self-Protection,Holdens alienation is his way of protec
5、ting himself. Just as he wears his hunting hat to advertise his uniqueness, he uses his isolation as proof that he is better than everyone else around him and therefore above interacting with them. The truth is that interactions with other people usually confuse and overwhelm him, and his cynical se
6、nse of superiority serves as a type of self-protection. Thus, Holdens alienation is the source of what little stability he has in his life.,The Painfulness of Growing Up,Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a bildungsroman（教育小说） because his central goal is to resist the process of maturity
7、 itself. Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity.He wants everything to be easily understandable and eternally fixed. He is frightened because he is guilty of the sins he criticizes in others, and because he cant understand everything around him.,The Phoniness of the Adult World,Althoug
8、h hed like to believe that the world is a simple place, and that virtue and innocence rest on one side of the fence while superficiality and phoniness rest on the other, Holden is his own counterevidence. The world is not as simple as hed like; even he cannot adhere to the same black-and-white stand
9、ards with which he judges other people.,Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobodysaround-nobody big, I mean-except me. And Im standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch eve
10、rybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if theyre running and they dont look where theyre going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. Thats all Id do all day. Id just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know its crazy, but thats the only thing Id really like to be. 不管怎样，我老是在想象，有那么一群小孩子在一大块麦田里做游戏。几千几万个小孩子，附近没有一个人没有一个大人，我是说除了我。我呢，就站在那混帐的悬崖边。我的职务是在那儿守望，要是有哪个孩子往悬崖边奔来，我就把他捉住我是说孩子们都在狂奔，也不知道自己是在往哪儿跑，我得从什么地方出来，把他们捉住。我整天就干这样的事。我只相当个麦田里的守望者。我知道这有点异想天开，可我真正喜欢干的就是这个。”,
