麦田守望者的文献综述.doc

Jerome David Salinger is born in New York City, on January1st, 1916. He grew up in Newswire and later attended three colleges. As early as the age of fifteen he began writing. When he was twenty one he published his first short story. After service as an infantry sergeant in Europe during World War Ⅱ he wrote more stories, most of which were published in Collier’s, Saturday Evening Post collected papers and other journals. Salinger, a man of mystery and conscientiousness, aliens from all things connected with the society. In Salinger’s works, his protagonists are often sensitive and very aware of adolescents, or adults who, in either case, seek their own identity in relation to an external world with which they find themselves more or less at odds. And also, alienation or disenchantment with the so-called “adult” world figures largely exists in his writings. With the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, J. D. Salinger gained almost an immediate acceptance as being among the most significant post-World War Ⅱ American novelists. In The Catcher in the Rye, a 16 years old middle-school student, Holden, was dismissed by Pencey School for the fourth time. Then he chose to be a tramp. The three days’ vagrant life vividly reflects his experiences and feelings. It manifests the American young people’s depressed and indecisive psychology. And also, it shows us the hypocritical and repulsive of the adult world. What Holden had seen and heard had aroused the innumerable contemporary people’s intense sympathetic chord. Many adults also had a better understanding of the younger generations through reading this book. Holden, as an incompletely sensible child as well as an “adult”—just as a know-it-all, struggles to find the right path into adulthood. He finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him surprisingly unbearable. And through his visual angle he tried to protect himself from the pain and disappointment in the adult world. However, he is constantly dis