J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1st,1919. His father was an importer of hams and cheeses. When Salinger was fifteen, he was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania, to which most of the description about boa...

When learning at the military school, he had practiced to write short story .And after that he never gave up writing no matter studying at school or joining in the army. In 1940 he published the first novella in magazine The Novel, and the f...

This novel, narrated by sixteen-year-old Holden, superficially recalling the three-day wanderings in New York after he is expelled from the Pencey Middle School before Christmas, depicts the depression and bewilderment of the middle-class an...

In the thesis, I analyzed the process of Holden’s transformation in different aspects and the causes of his transformation. The purpose is to discuss whether the conflict between actual ego and ideal ego belongs to a part of growing pains ...

The Catcher in the Rye is J. D. Salinger's only novel, honored as modern classic of American postwar literature. This novel is narrated in the point of view of a boy at the age of sixteen. It is a story about his life of three days and two n...

based on the novel, aims to better understand the theme of the novel—the sensitive youth beleaguered by society, and intends to gain further insight into the special group of today’s youth. In this prospering society, people ought to pay...

This thesis aims to analyze the reality and ideal of “the watcher” (Holden) in The Catcher in the Rye and then to explore the practical significance of keeping watching. It consists of five parts. Part one is the introduction. Part two p...

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J. D. Salinger, a famous American writer. The novel presents a serious of madman stuff that happens, a lonely middle school student who is in the edge of the main stream in society before Christma...

This of course rejects by the feudalism and arouses the conflict between both sides. To focus on this point, this paper analyzes the tragic image from Satan heroic rebel behavior to the demise of the hero....

Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) is one of the most famous American writers in the mid-twentieth century. His work, The Catcher in the Rye, is regarded as one of his most important and classical works for its lite...

The Catcher in the Rye, it influences the American society deeply. Its protagonist, Holden Caulfield, seems to represent the young people after the World War Ⅱ—the so-called “Beat Generation”. He seeks to establish an ideal world...