论《麦田守望者》主人公身上的矛盾性_英语论文

An Analysis of the Contradictoriness of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye

摘要

杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格所写的《麦田守望者》一经出版便引起外界褒贬不一的热论。本书主要描述了霍尔顿三天的纽约经历，并据此给我们展示了主人公从无助探索到最终妥协的历程，其最大的亮点在于作者对主人公的复杂心理的细腻深刻剖析。塞林格不仅抓住了主人公霍尔顿的理想与现实冲突这一特征加以分析，而且也紧紧抓住了青少年青春期的心理特点来表现主人公的善良纯真和荒诞乖僻这一矛盾而又极具吸引力的特质。本文将以文献阅读与研究为主，对于主人公矛盾的性格特质的进行细致分析，揭示造成这种矛盾的社会、家庭和主人公自身原因，还原主人公真实的形象，最终理解主人公何以最后得到顿悟、与社会达成和解并重新回归社会。

关键词：霍尔顿 性格矛盾性 顿悟

Abstract

The Catcher in the Rye written by J. D. Salinger set off a mixed, heated discussion as soon as published. It mainly describes the three-day New York life of Holden and shows us Holden’s progress from helpless exploration to final compromise. The highlight of it is the writer’s exquisite and profound analysis of Holden’s complex thought. In this book, Salinger captured and analyzed Holden’s conflict between his ideality and reality as well as gripped psychological characteristics of youth to performance Holden’s innocence, kindness and his absurdity and perversity which was contradictory and attractive. This paper would mainly focus on reading and researching to analyze Holden’s contradictory characteristics and reveal the reasons from society aspect, family aspect and Holden’s own aspect. Meanwhile this paper would also study the final epiphany of protagonist and the process of his reaching reconciliation with society. 

Key words: Holden; the contradictoriness of personality; epiphany

Contents

Introduction 5

Chapter One The Contradictoriness of Holden’s Personality in The Catcher in the Rye 7

1.1 Holden’s Narcissism and Inferiority 7

1.2 Holden's Jejuneness and Precocity 9

1.3Holden’s Revolt and Compromise 11

Chapter Two The Reasons of Holden’s Contradictoriness 12

2.1 The Social Factors 12

2.2 Holden's Isolation from the Family 14

2.3 Holden’s Personality 15

2.3.1 Sensitivity 16

2.3.2 Alienation 16

Chapter 3 The Final Epiphany of Holden 17

3.1 Holden's Final Moment of Epiphany 17

3.2 Phoebe’s Efforts 18

Conclusion 19

Bibliography 20

Acknowledgement 21