the Catcher In the Rye 英文读后感 麦田里的守望者

The Catcher In the Rye is a novel written by American writer Jerome David Salinger,which is considered to be one of the most classic works in the twentieth century American literature.It published in 1951,when American just won the Second World War and became a economic and military power in the world,people at that time ignored personality development and other’s feeling but only focused on creating wealth.The Catcher In the Rye criticized such kind of phenomenon.

The story occurred during 3 days,about a sixteen-year-old high school student,Holden Caulfield,who used to talk dirty and disliked study.This was the forth time for him to be dismissed by school.He was afraid to be scold by his parents,so he take a considerable sum of money and left for New York.After two days hanging out he decided to pack up and run away to a place where is far away from home,but with his sister’s entreaties he finally chose to stay.There are many conflicts in the story,but the most important one maybe is Holden’s inner conflict.From the brief plot we may regard him as a rebellious and cynical boy,but actually he is also sincere and good-hearted,has base line of moral,we can see that from when he refused the prostitute,donated money to the nuns,concerned about where the ducks can go in the winter and so on.

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm 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 they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”These is the most famous line in the novel,which appears in chapter 22.Holden had unique and different point of view about things,and he hated phony behaviors,such kind of character can exactly be showed from the words above,when his sister Phoebe asked what he wanted to do in the future.Holden was born in a middle class family,teachers and parents only wanted him to get grades and become rich but ignored hid real feelings.Holden’s complaint means his discontent with the unfair in American social and no one really understand him.So if we see in this way, Holden seems to be a little kid playing in the rye rather than a catcher,he hoped that someone would come,understand and help him,let him to do the things he like but not only study the boring lessons,what made him disappointed is that the man didn’t appear all the time.Growth is an eternal topic,maybe we will have some confusion just like Holden,but may us can find the one who understands us and never give up our original dreams.