麦田里的守望者39TheCatcherintheRye.doc

My Views on The Catcher in the Rye Comments on the Author The author of the book is J.D.Salinger, whose full name is Jerome David Salinger. He was born in January.1th, 1919 and died in January.27th, 2010. As an American writer, he is best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. Summary of the Book The main character is a 16-year-old student----Holden Caulfield, who is born in a wealthy middle-family in New York. The teachers and parents force him to study hard, the purpose of which is able to buy a Cadillac in the future. However what he does in the school is talking about women, alcohol, and sex. He doesnt like the people around him. Because there is no desire to study in his mind, so he is always being punished. When he receives his fourth dismissal, he does not dare to go home, instead he just wanders in the prosperous New York City for one day and two nights alone. After that he checks in a hotel, killing the time with a prostitute, but at the same time his heart is very depressed and he attempts to escape the hypocrisy of the adult world, he wants to look for batch purity and truth of experiences. This spirit of irreconcilable conflict eventually leads to his extremely complete collapse, lying down in a mental hospital. Personal Views of the Book When I first read the book, I didnt like Holden Caulfield. I thought he was a bad student, for he doesnt study hard, and he is always talking about women, he drinks a lot of alcohol. All in all he lives a decadent life. In his mind, he doesnt have lofty ideals, such as to be a scientist, a teacher, or an engineer. His dream is just to be a catcher in the rye. I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids and nobodys around----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 everybody if they start to go over the cliff. I mean if theyre running