An Analysis of Holden’s Growing Path of Life.doc

An Analysis of Holden’s Growing Path of Life I. Introduction The Catcher in the Ray is the only novel written by J. D. Salinger. With its publication in 1951, J. D. Salinger becomes one of the most significant Post-World II American novelists. The novel immediately becomes very popular in America soon after its publication and has been reprinted again and again. In one from or another, Salinger is Everybody’s favorite with that audience of students, student’s intellectuals, instructors, and generally literary, sensitive, and sophisticated young people who respond to him with a consciousness that he speaks for them and virtually to them, in a language that is peculiarly honest and their own, with a vision of things that captures their most secret judgments of the world. (Harold 2) The Catcher in the Rye narrates a series of picaresque adventures of a sixteen-year-old boy in the New York for three days. It belongs to the American initiation story and has a very important status in the literature. American initiation story is a novel genre, which attaches great importance to growing up problems of the adolescence, but it has its own features in terms of narrative structure, plot and protagonists. The protagonist Holden Caulfield became a legendary figure, and his acute adolescent awareness is the same as most sensitivity young Americans. Since its publication, The Catcher in the Rye is a controversial literary work. Some very famous literary critics including John Aldridge, Maxwell Geismar, Leslie Fiedler, Grederick Gwymn even doubted at the value of The Catcher in the Rye. This situation lasts until Warren French publishes his first work on Salinger: J. D. Salinger. Additional criticism of The Catcher in the Rye concentrated on the language, narrative structure, and cultural continuity compared with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the education or initiation of an adolescent, and Holden’s awareness crisis. And this paper will be dissertation to analyze the growin