霍尔顿在《麦田里的守望者》中的逃离和回归社会

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Abstract This paper chiefly deals with the process that how the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye escaped and returned to the society from the perspective of initiation novel. On the bases of close reading and comparative study on the original work and the narrative structure, the growing process of the protagonist is pided into three parts in this thesis including innocence, escape and epiphanies and return. Part one is an analysis of the manifestation of Holden’s innocence through his personality characteristics and the temptations he held to the ideal world. The second part tries to demonstrate his escape from the confusions he met and the struggles he made. The final part discusses the epiphanies in the protagonist’s escape and the way he returned to the society. Finally, this paper reflects the disillusion and inward metamorphosis of teenagers when they are growing into adults.52391

Key words: The Catcher in the Rye; Bildungsroman; the Beats; epiphany

摘要本篇论文主要从成长小说的角度讨论《麦田里的守望者》的主人公霍尔顿如何逃离和回归社会。在细读文本和比较成长小说叙事结构的基础上，本文可以分为三个部分：天真、逃离、顿悟和回归。第一部分主要从主人公人物性格特点和他幻想中的世界的诱惑来分析了主人公的天真的表现；第二部分展示了霍尔顿遭遇的困惑和他所做出的斗争，以此展现他逃离社会的过程；第三部分讨论了主人公在逃离社会的途中产生的顿悟以及他回归社会的表现。最后，本文表现了青少年在转变为成人的过程中经历的幻想的破灭和内心的蜕变。

毕业论文关键词：麦田里的守望者；成长小说；垮掉的一代；顿悟

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 General Information of the Thesis 1

1.2 Literature Review 2

2 Innocence 5

2.1 Personality Characteristics 5

2.2 Temptation 6

3 Escape 7

3.1 Confusions 7

3.2 Struggle 8

4 Epiphanies and Returns 10

4.1 Life and Self-Awareness 10

4.2 Compromises with the Material World 11

5 Conclusion 13

References 14

1. Introduction

1.1 General Information of the Thesis

J. D. Salinger is considered as one of the most significant post-World War II American novelists and short story writer. His skill in writing, “in the manner of the New Yorker, with its period styles,”(Harold Bloom, 1987, p. 2) are admirable. His best-known work is The Catcher in the Rye (1952), a story about a rebellious teenage schoolboy and his quixotic experiences in New York. In one form or another, Salinger is “everybody’s favorite”, for audience from students to intellectuals found similarities in this novel so that they thought this book was a spokesperson of them.

The Catcher in the Rye is a landmark book in the post-war period with its immediate and sustained popularity. Sanford Pinsker views it as “a formative book for young people in the 1950s, one of those novels to be tested against experience.”(Clifton Fadiman, 1986, p. 127) This book appealed to a great number of readers all the time. It was a popular best-seller and general critical success. Although there are still many people who doubted its effects on young readers. The protagonist Holden leaves profound spiritual effects on those readers.