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20140603 文学评论阅读 1. 《麦田里的守望者》 The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a novel about a young character’s growth into maturity. Holden Caulfield, however, is an unusual character for a bildungsroman because his central goal is to resist the process of maturity itself. As his thoughts about the Museum of Natural History show, Holden fears change and complexity. He wants everything to be easily understandable and fixed, like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum. He is frightened because he is guilty of the sins he criticizes in others, and because he can’t understand everything aroun