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1、密级：公开 学号：2013309795 本科生毕业论文麦田守望者主人公霍尔顿人物形象分析黑体小二号居中，单倍行距An Analysis of Holden in The Catcher in the Rye学 院： 江西科技学院 专 业： 英语 班 级： 13英语 3班 学生姓名： 金星 指导老师： 廖莉 完成日期： _2017.4.12_ 学士学位论文原创性声明本人郑重声明：所呈交的论文（设计）是本人在指导老师的指导下独立进行研究，所取得的研究成果。除了文中特别加以标注引用的内容外，本论文（设计）不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写的成果作品。对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文

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3、霍尔顿是塞林格著名的文学作品麦田里的守望者里的小主人公，也是当时美国年轻人的代表人物。显而易见，形象鲜活的霍尔顿给各个时代的读者都带来了深深地震撼。本文将着重分析研究霍尔顿的个性特征。主人公所处的现实社会是矛盾的、对立的。“假模假样”是这部小说中的一个经典词语，也是主人公常用的词语。本文将从霍尔顿矛盾性格对立的角度,对他的两方面个性特征进行分析，包括其个性中的反叛性以及其坚守纯真,追求幸福的崇高愿望。同时探究主人公霍尔顿矛盾性格形成的成因，从社会环境和教育环境两个维度来解读，以期能探索其性格形成的根源。为了让读者能够更深入的了解主人公和第二次世界大战后美国的社会现状，及作品背后蕴藏的深意，本文

4、对霍尔顿这个具有代表性的人物形象作了深刻的剖析。关 键 词: 纯真；性格分析；假模假样；反叛AbstractHolden is the young protagonist of the famous literary works The Catcher in the Rye, which is written by Salinger. At the same time, Holden also represents the youth of American at that time. It is obvious that the vivid image of Holden profoundl

5、y impacts all its readers. This thesis will focus on analyzing the personality characteristics of Holden. The real society in which the protagonist lives is contradictory and antagonistic. Phony is a classic words in the novel, and it is also commonly used by the protagonist. It vividly described so

6、cial hypocrisy and ugliness in the eyes of Holden. This article will analyze Holdens contradictory character from two aspects, including the rebelliousness in his personality and his noble ideals of defending for purity and chasing happiness. Meanwhile, this paper also explores causes that formed Ho

7、ldens contradictory personality by analyzing social and environmental factors, aiming to find out the root of his character. In order to give the reader a deeper understanding on the protagonist, the social situation of the United States after in the Second World War, and the profound meaning behind

8、 the works, this article makes a profound analysis on the representative image of Holden.Key words: Purity; personality analysis; phony; rebel Contents摘 要AbstractContentsChapter One Introduction21.1 Holden Caulfield21.2 The Author and the Significance of the Novel2Chapter Tow Holdenthe Innocent imag

9、e in The Catcher in the Rye22.1 Holden A Young Man Loving Pure Childhood Time22.2 Holden-A Patron God for Children22.2.1 The Ideal Eden22.2.2 A Catcher2Chapter Three A Rebel Resenting the World23.1 A Rebel against Mundane Affairs23.1.1 A Rebel against the School23.1.2 A Symbol for the Rebel Red Hunt

10、er Cap23.2 Evading in the Revolt23.3 Growing in the Revolt2Chapter Four The reasons of Contradictory character24.1 The social environment24.2 The education environment2Chapter Five Conclusion2Bibliography2Acknowledgements21 江西科技学院本科毕业论文Chapter One Introduction1.1 Holden Caulfield The hero in The Cat

11、cher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, was a middle school student, who was born in a rich middle-class family. He was only 16 years old, but he was taller than normal teenagers of the same age. He always wore a cap and trench coat every day. Holden did not like studying at school, and was expelled from

12、 school three times. Although he was expelled for failing four of his five subjects at the end of one semester, he didnt feel sorry. After fighting with his classmates, he didnt dare to go home. Then he found a small hotel to live in for one day. And he saw some men and women with disordered life th

13、ere. There was a man who wore women clothes; each of his postures made Holden feel sick. He would hang out in clubs every time he felt bored. He was annoyed when returning back to the hotel. So he agreed with Maurices advice to work as an elevator worker, since Maurice would find a prostitute for hi

14、m. But when the prostitute came, he felt nervous and scared, and finally had to give five dollars to the prostitute. The next day, Holden donated $10 to two nuns while wandering in the street. Holden went skating with his girlfriend Sally after watching a match. When he saw Sallys insincerity, Holde

15、n felt bad. Holden didnt want to go home or continue to go to school. Therefore, he decided to make a living in the west and pretended to be a deaf and dumb to live his rest life. But before leaving, he would like to see his sister. So he called her. Having waited for her for a long time, he saw his

16、 sister Phoebe arrived dragging a big suitcase full of her clothes. She was determined to go with her brother to the west. Finally, because of his sisters persistence, he had to give up his plan to the west.1.2 The Author and the Significance of the NovelThe Catcher in the Rye is one of the greatest

17、 works of modern literature. The author, Jerome David Salinger, wrote this novel whiling publishing some short novels. However, it had made significant impact on the society and literature of America. The Catcher in the Rye was popular among American teenagers, because it reflected their inside feel

18、ing. Critics believed it was the best “initiation novel”. They considered that the novel had some similarities with Huckleberry Finn, a masterpiece of Mark Twain. After it published, The Catcher in the Rye directly influenced creating novels of this kind. “I just wanted to be a catcher in the rye” i

19、s its symbolic image, representing the whole meaning of the novel. Salinger hoped to have such a dream that he could accompany the growth of children. Holden hunter red hat, another profound meaning of the image, consistently existed through the whole novel. The hero would like to be “the catcher in

20、 the rye” and then he would be responsible for the safety of children and alert like a hunter. His hat stood for his ideal and responsibility and also the harbor of body and mind. Later he gave the hat to his most beloved sister hoping that she could approve with his thoughts and actions.Chapter Two

21、 Holdenthe Innocent Image in The Catcher in the Rye2.1 Holden a Young Man Loving Pure Childhood Time It can be known from the novel that Holden did not like the hypocrisy of society, and looked forwards to chase the purity of childhood. As long as purity is mentioned, it will make the pure world occ

22、ur to our mind. In this novel, the pure world was demonstrated by the representative characters. The first one was Alley who was Holdens younger brother. He loved Alley for the reason that Alley was his brother as well as because his chasteness and wisdom. As Holden remembered, he slept in the carba

23、rn at the time when Alley died. Sohe always thought that he should be responsible for Alleys death. Because he was particularly sad, his fists fiercely broke the glass window. Additionally, he also had the mind that he would die, too. There is anotherdetail that also could found he loved Alley very

24、much: hehad been keeping Alleys baseball glove. As Stradlaters request Holden created anarticle whose content is concerning about the gloves. He often talked to Alley, and it seemed that his younger brother still stayed beside him. AsPhoebe asked Holden about what kind thing and person he liked, it

25、often easily made hime to has his cute brother in mind. He knew that Alley had died, but he was the symbol of purity in his heart.Holden exerted all his energies to conrcern with Phoebe when faced her. He looked forward to defend herinnocent and pure heart. As he was swallowed by thehypocritical peo

26、ple as well as society, and even as he almost lost hope for everything, then he entered Phoebes room.He told her that he was afraid he would not have an opportunity to see her any more before his death. At the time he made up his mind to go to the West, he said goodbye to Phoebe. He was almost insan

27、e when he found the obscene words on the her school walls. It was very has for him to imaginethat if students see these kinds of words, what would appear in their mind. Phoebe had expressed her willing to company with him, but he refused frankly. He looked forward her keeping a positive and optimist

28、ic attitude towards her life. One time she just said a simple words “shut up”, which surprised him a lot.In Holdens mind, when encounter troublesome things, he would think the little girls wearing skating shoes wew very lovable. Here, the word lovable was employed to describe the world in opposition

29、 to “hypocritical”. As to the meaning of lovable, it contained the quality of sincerity and innocent, and all of them were illustrated by children. Holden had encountered two nuns, both of them were quite nice because they put all their heart and soul to help others, which was different to his aunts

30、 who would not do good things. In addition, his aunt would never appear before the public without making up. However, the nuns were not do the same, so they were the symbol of adults purity. Whats more, there were a lot of other things occured in his mind every now and then, for example his girlfrie

31、nd Jane, Richard who spoke unconstrainedly in oral class, the changeless duck, the fish in lake, as well as the relic in museum, and even a hunters red cap, all of which transmitted intrinsic signals in his sub-consciousness. In “Survey of Contemporary American Novel” proposed by Huang Tiechi who ar

32、gued that the signals just keeps two information: the first one is that Holden loves purity and keeps chasing it, and also looks forward to keep innocence as children; the other is changeless and freezing things, and they all demonstrate his intelligence and dignity. (Huang, 2000: 7). 2.2 Holden-A P

33、atron God for ChildrenAs Holden had fight against the ugly world, he felt quite tired, and he had disappointment about the corruption and mendacity in the society. He desired to run into the real Eden, at which place he could live with purity and honesty.2.2.1 The Ideal EdenAs to Holden, the ideal E

34、den was a pure and innocent place for children. Holden agued the world he lived in were full of wicked and brutal things, and the people were all lousy. Therefore, he preferred to isolate himself from the hated world and people. Different with the inveracious and wicked adult world, childrens simpli

35、city made him be pleased and comforted. To him, together with children was very important to him, as well as his dream about childhood was significant to him. The children world was as clear as crystal, and it was a world filled with love, and warm could be found everywhere. Holden kept the ideal it

36、 should protect children from disturbing, so that they can keep the pure and real nature of human.It is the ideal Eden that made Holden to become a protector to protect the good nature of children. In the adult world, dismay and corruption were here and there. So, in Holdens mind, the single thing t

37、hat worth him to do is to make all his effort to protect children from not to be influenced, and try his best to maintain their innocent nature. “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobodys around-nobody big

38、, I mean-except me. And Im 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 theyre running and they dont look where theyre going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. Thats all Id do all day. Id just be th

39、e catcher in the rye and all.”（Salinger, 1951:173）His biggest wish was to defend purity and children. He believed that people were naive and pure when they were children before decaying by adult.There was no doubt that the ideal Eden was equivalent to a faultless Holy Land. 2.2.2 A CatcherHolden cre

40、ated by the author was test himself and his life concept again. Finally, Holden started to clearly make up his thoughtsa bit incoherently, it was trueconcerning the thing he was willing to do in his life. His hope is to be the “catcher”, who can defend children and their purity. He struggled to prot

41、ect naive children from being disturbed by decadent adult world. He thirsted for philosophical meaning of his life, which keeps a primary moral aim overpassing the reality and practice. The task was as important as a savior. He didnt mean to be sacrilegious intent, but his only hope was to keep huma

42、n away from wickedness. The point of view of Holden was that all the unhappy features of a child were because he or her touch the adult world too early. Therefore, he longed for children to maintain purity, and never involving in adult world. Therefore, Holden preferred to become a catcher in the ry

43、e, so that he could save a lot of pure and naive children from the edge of cliff.It can be seen from the novel The Catcher in the Rye that the author assure us that Holdenhas the noble dream to seek for universal fraternity and spirit. He acted as a mutineer to the society, whats more, he also manif

44、ested as a “catcher” protecting purity and children from the evil adult world. In addition, the puritythat the children owned was one of the most distinguished nature of human. Holdens career was significant,because it was good for children as well as for the whole world. It was no doubt that Holden

45、 should get the greatest compliment to some extent.Chapter Three A Rebel Resenting the World 3.1 A Rebel against Mundane AffairsFrom the novel, it can be recognized that people had the right to obtain education right. For the purpose of achieving success, all people tried their best to pursue knowle

46、dge. He despised those around him, for example his father, his brother and others. Here giving an example to illustrate, “The father who is making a lot of dough and plays golf and plays bridge and buys cars and drinks Martinis and looks like a hot-shot.”（Salinger, 1951: 172）. His brother was quite

47、clever, D. B, he chose the way to Hollywood, and looked forward to earn money by creating scripts. In addition, Anto Nepali married a old woman who had a lot of treasure. Holden hated all things like those. Therefore, he started to fight against the real world, and hoped to have a wonderful life as he want.3.1.1 A Rebel against the SchoolIn the first part of the novel, it described that Holden was weeded out of Pencey because he fail one course out of five ones. However, he hadnt as the schools stipulated time, in fact, he left