The Catcher in the Rye麦田里的守望者读后感教学文稿.docVIP

The Catcher in the Rye: Live Truly The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by Jerome David Salinger opens with the narrator, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old boy from New York City, telling the story of three days in his life. In this book, Salinger expresses his desire for true love and purity. For the hero, Holden, it is the adult world that has driven him insane. He just cannot relate to anyone except for his kid sister Phoebe. Everything and all other people seem phony to him. Holden is unable to accept life. Since Holden is becoming an adult himself, he is unhappy with what he will represent. He flunks out of three boarding schools in a row, the latest of them Pencey Prep. After an unpleasant experience with his history teacher Old Spencer, his roommate Stradlater and the boy next door, Robert Ackley, Holden decides to leave Pencey four days early for Christmas break. He knows that he cannot return to his parents because they are not aware that he has been expelled again. Holden spends the next three days wandering aimlessly around New York City. In those three short days, he suffers a lot. Finally, he meets his sister, who tells him she wants to run away with him and that she will never go back to school. Holden sees himself in her, finally changes his mind and decides to go back to his parents. Salinger develops his own style of the use of language. The Catcher in the Rye is written in a \o First-person narrative subjective style from the point of view of its \o Protagonist protagonist, Holden Caulfield, following his exact thought processes. There is flow in the seemingly disjointed ideas and episodes; for example, as Holden sits in a chair in his dorm, minor events such as picking up a book or looking at a table, unfold into discussions about experiences. Critical reviews agree that the novel accurately reflected the teenage \o Colloquialism colloquial speech of the time. Words and phrases that frequently appear include Phony Th