摘要美国作家杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格的长篇小说《麦田里的守望者》是后现代zhuyi文学的开创作品之一。小说讲述了主人公霍尔顿在被学校开除后独自一人在纽约流浪一天两夜的心路历程。通过采用文献分析，对比研究等方法，本文重点分析霍尔顿的性格特征及造成此性格特征的原因，旨在阐明在当时社会大背景下“垮掉的一代”的作家和青年人所具有的“时代病”以及他们放浪形骸的行为掩饰下对真善美的追求。这一主题的阐明对于缓解特殊群体与正常社会的矛盾及缩短青少年与成人社会的断层具有一定的现实意义，具有积极的帮助。84229

毕业论文关键词：《麦田里的守望者》；后现代zhuyi文学；垮掉的一代

Abstract Jerome David Salinger’s great novel The Catcher in the Rye, is one of the pioneering works in the post-modernism literature。 This novel mainly tells about a cynical boy Holden Caulfield with his three days’ experience and mental process in New York after flunking out of school。 By using approaches of analysis and comparisons, this paper focuses on the characteristics of Holden and the reasons why those are caused, and aims to explain the “disease of the times” of the writers and youths of the Beat Generation under the special social background, and their pursuits for the true, the good and the beautiful that were hidden in their unrestricted behaviors。 The explanation for this theme owns the realistic meanings and positive influences on mitigating the contradiction between the special groups and the normal life and shortening the gap between the adolescent and the society。

 Key words: The Catcher in the Rye; post-modernism literature; the Beat Generation 

Contents

摘 要 i

Abstract ii

I。 Introduction 1

II。The Characteristics of Holden in The Catcher in the Rye 3

2。1 Holden’s Personalities in The Catcher in the Rye 3

2。2 Reasons of Ambivalence 3

III。 Holden’s Unrestricted Behaviors 6

3。1 Survival Like an Adult 6

3。2 Regress to the Nature 7

 IV。 The Connections Between The Catcher in the Rye and the Beat Generation 9

4。1 The Catcher in the Rye and Writers of the Beat Generation 9

4。2 The Catcher in the Rye and the Youths of the Beat Generation 11

V。 Conclusion 12

Bibliography 15

Acknowledgements 16

An Analysis of the Beat Generation in the Post-Modernism Literature from The Catcher in the Rye

I。 Introduction

    The Catcher in the Rye is Jerome David Salinger’s remarkable work, which is about a cynical boy Holden Caulfield with his three days’ experience and mental process in New York after flunking out of school last time。 The whole novel is written in a first-person narration that from the point of view of the adolescent Holden Caulfied, a sixteen-year-old boy who comes from a middle-class family。 Critical reviews agree that the novel accurately reflects the adolescent colloquial language of the time, so it has attracted lots of young readers after its publication, and has been  putting on the reading lists of 275 famous universities in the America and European countries。 At present, it has been translated to dozens of languages in the world。