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1、麦田守望者主人公霍尔顿人物形象分析麦田守望者主子公霍尔顿人物形象分析黑体小二号居中，单倍行距 摘 要 霍尔顿是塞林格闻名的文学作品麦田里的守望者里的小主子公，也是当时美国年轻人的代表人物。自不待言，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。本文将着重分析探讨霍尔顿的特性特征。主子公所处的现实社会是冲突的、对立的。“假模假样”是这部小说中的一个经典词语，也是主子公常用的词语。本文将从霍尔顿冲突性格对立的角度,对他的两方面特性特征进行分析，包括其特性中的反叛性以及其坚守纯真,追求华蜜的崇高愿望。同时探究主子公霍尔顿冲突性格形成的成因，从社会环境和教化环境两个维度来解读，以期能探究其性格形

2、成的根源。 为了让读者能够更深化的了解主子公和其次次世界大战后美国的社会现状，及作品背后隐藏的深意，本文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 Abstract Holden 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 tim

3、e. It is obvious that the vivid image of Holden profoundly 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 als

4、o commonly used by the protagonist. It vividly described social 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

5、. Meanwhile, this paper also explores causes that formed Holdens 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 aft

6、er in the Second World War, and the profound meaning behind the works, this article makes a profound analysis on the representative image of Holden. Key words: Purity; personality analysis; phony; rebel Contents 摘 要 Abstract Contents Chapter One Introduction 2 1.1 Holden Caulfield 2 1.2 The Author a

7、nd the Significance of the Novel 2 Chapter Tow Holdenthe Innocent image in The Catcher in the Rye 2 2.1 Holden A Young Man Loving Pure Childhood Time 2 2.2 Holden-A Patron God for Children 2 2.2.1 The Ideal Eden 2 2.2.2 A Catcher 2 Chapter Three A Rebel Resenting the World 2 3.1 A Rebel against Mund

8、ane Affairs 2 3.1.1 A Rebel against the School 2 3.1.2 A Symbol for the Rebel Red Hunter Cap 2 3.2 Evading in the Revolt 2 3.3 Growing in the Revolt 2 Chapter Four The reasons of Contradictory character 2 4.1 The social environment 2 4.2 The education environment 2 Chapter Five Conclusion 2 Bibliogr

9、aphy 2 Acknowledgements 21 Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Holden Caulfield The hero in The Catcher 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

10、cap and trench coat every day. Holden did not like studying at school, and was expelled from 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

11、 a small hotel to live in for one day. And he saw some men and women with disordered life there. 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

12、 Maurices advice to work as an elevator worker, since Maurice would find a prostitute for him. 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 ska

13、ting with his girlfriend Sally after watching a match. When he saw Sallys insincerity, Holden 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

14、 like to see his sister. So he called her. Having waited for her for a long time, he saw his 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.

15、1.2 The Author and the Significance of the Novel The Catcher in the Rye is one of the greatest 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 C

16、atcher in the Rye was popular among American teenagers, because it reflected their inside feeling. 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

17、directly influenced creating novels of this kind. “I just wanted to be a catcher in the rye” is 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

18、image, consistently existed through the whole novel. The hero would like to be “the catcher in 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 h

19、is most beloved sister hoping that she could approve with his thoughts and actions. Chapter Two Holdenthe Innocent Image in The Catcher in the Rye 2.1 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 t

20、o chase the purity of childhood. As long as purity is mentioned, it will make the pure world occur 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 b

21、rother as well as because his chasteness and wisdom. As Holden remembered, he slept in the carbarn 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 th

22、e mind that he would die, too. There is anotherdetail that also could found he loved Alley very 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 broth

23、er still stayed beside him. AsPhoebe asked Holden about what kind thing and person he liked, it 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. H

24、e looked forward to defend herinnocent and pure heart. As he was swallowed by thehypocritical people 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.

25、At the time he made up his mind to go to the West, he said goodbye to Phoebe. He was almost insane when he found the obscene words on the her school walls. It was very has for him to imagine that if students see these kinds of words, what would appear in their mind. Phoebe had expressed her willing

26、to company with him, but he refused frankly. He looked forward her keeping a positive and optimistic 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 skat

27、ing shoes wew very lovable. Here, the word “lovable“ was employed to describe the world in opposition 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 wer

28、e quite nice because they put all their heart and soul to help others, which was different to his aunts 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

29、more, there were a lot of other things occured in his mind every now and then, for example his girlfriend 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 signa

30、ls in his sub-consciousness. In “Survey of Contemporary American Novel” proposed by Huang Tiechi who argued 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 f

31、reezing things, and they all demonstrate his intelligence and dignity. (Huang, 2000: 7). 2.2 Holden-A Patron God for Children As 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

32、Eden, at which place he could live with purity and honesty. 2.2.1 The Ideal Eden As to Holden, the ideal Eden 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 himsel

33、f from the hated world and people. Different with the inveracious and wicked adult world, childrens simplicity 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

34、crystal, and it was a world filled with love, and warm could be found everywhere. Holden kept the ideal it s hould 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 chil

35、dren. In the adult world, dismay and corruption were here and there. So, in Holdens mind, the single thing that 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

36、 playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobodys around-nobody big, 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

37、 where theyre going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. Thats all Id do all day. Id just be the 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 adu

38、lt. There was no doubt that the ideal Eden was equivalent to a faultless Holy Land. 2.2.2 A Catcher Holden created 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 d

39、o in his life. His hope is to be the “catcher”, who can defend children and their purity. He struggled to protect 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

40、task was as important as a savior. He didnt mean to be sacrilegious intent, but his only hope was to keep human 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

41、maintain purity, and never involving in adult world. Therefore, Holden preferred to become a catcher in the rye, 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 drea

42、m to seek for universal fraternity and spirit. He acted as a mutineer to the society, whats more, he also manifested 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 care

43、er was significant,because it was good for children as well as for the whole world. It was no doubt that Holden should get the greatest compliment to some extent. Chapter Three A Rebel Resenting the World 3.1 A Rebel against Mundane Affairs From the novel, it can be recognized that people had the ri

44、ght to obtain education right. For the purpose of achieving success, all people tried their best to pursue knowledge. 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

45、bridge and buys cars and drinks Martinis and looks like a hot-shot.”（Salinger, 1951: 172）. His brother was quite 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

46、 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 School In 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

47、as the schools stipulated time, in fact, he left school in advance, which was his own way to revolt against the school. On his own initiative, he left school because of his own willing, but not because of outside driving. He was reluctant to make effort to learn, which clearly demonstrated he revolt

48、ed against the educational system at that time. From some details in the story, they could also manifest Holdens rebellion characters. Here giving an example, once he had visited his teacher Mr. Antolini, who compared and analyzed the difference between immature and mature man, and gave him the sign

49、ificant suggestions, but not suicidal suggestion.What was Holdens response to the sincere advice? He had no interests in listening to suggestions of the teacher, since he only cared for himself. Holden didnt accept the roles in the world by the constructive way, on the contrary, he rebelled against the school and the family, even the world with the immature attitude. Additionally