Abstract:

The Catcher in the Rye is the only novel by an American writer J. D. Salinger. He begins the story just in a 16-year-old high school student Holden Caulfield, after he’s been expelled from prep school, and within three days wandering New York. Salinger explores the inner world of a teenage boy. My research is to uncover the root causes of the formation of Holden’s complex personality, just from the environment of Holden’s family, school and social aspects. And then from the education system and mainstream culture to analyze Holden’s non-mainstream revolt. In the end to find the reasons from external factors, internal factors and the conflicts between ideal and reality to analyze Holden’s non-mainstream revolt is doomed to fail.

Key words: J. D. Salinger;《The Catcher in the Rye》; conflicts; non-mainstream revolt;

摘要：

《麦田里的守望者》是美国作家杰罗姆•大卫•塞林格唯一的一部长篇小说，塞林格将故事的起止局限于16岁的中学生霍尔顿•考尔菲德从离开学校到纽约游荡的三天时间内，探索了一个十几岁少年的内心世界。本文从霍尔顿的家庭、学校、社会环境方面来揭示他的复杂性格形成的根源，从教育制度和主流文化的反抗来分析霍尔顿的非主流反抗，并从内部、外部因素及现实和理想的冲突来剖析霍尔顿非主流反抗注定失败的原因。

关键词：塞林格；麦田里的守望者；冲突；非主流反抗；

1.    Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the author
J.D. Salinger is an outstanding writer in contemporary American literature. After short stay in  New York University and Columbia University, Salinger devoted himself entirely to writing, and by 1940 he had published several short stories on journals. Although his career as a writer was interrupted by World War II, after retirement from the U.S. Army in 1946, Salinger resumed his writing career and started working for The New Yorker. Throughout his life, Salinger published thirty-five short stories. His major works include Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey(1961), Raise High the Roof Beam, and Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), and the only novel and most noble work by him, The Catcher in the Rye .