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I Just Want to be A Catcher in the Rye
----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, 1, 1919 and died in January, 27, 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 doesn't 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 dismial, he does not dare 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 depreed and he attempts to escape the hypocrisy of the adult world, he wants to look for batch purity and truth of experiences and feelings actively.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 didn't like Holden Caulfield.I thought he was a bad student, for he doesn't 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 doesn't 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 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...I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all...”
The above words are what Holden Caulfield tells to his sister Phoebe Caulfield.She is Holden's little sister, a bright and articulate girl.She is one of the few people he feels great affection for, and he talks about her with obvious delight.She is the personification of Holden's idealized view of childhood, and she seems to have all the wonderful qualities Holden ascribes to her.Phoebe plays a central role in Holden's thoughts, and has much influence on what happens to him at the end of the book.However when I read the story of Holden for the second time, my views changed a lot.I began to feel sympathy for him and think he is a good boy in nature.The reason why
he turns to be a bad guy is the environment around him.His teachers tell him to study hard just in order to be afford to buy an expensive car in the future.His president treats different students with different attitudes.He smiles to the students from rich families, makes handshakes with their parents initiatively, but he shows unfriendline to the students from poor families.The hypocritical side of the adult world makes Holden very disappointed, so he uses the alcohol to anaesthetize himself.He thinks he could use the extreme ways to escape form the world or attract the attentions of the adults.On the contrary, he is just a boy who has mental problems in the eyes of the adults.The ending of the story is not a happy one, to be honest, the whole story is a tragedy.Finally I find that I can understand why Holden Caulfield wants to be a catcher in the rye, because his wish is to save the children.Being a catcher in the rye is more meaningful than being a scientist, a teacher or an engineer.I just want to be a catcher in the rye like Holden Caulfield.国教学院10级外汉二班陈静学号0101114046
