論麥田里的守望者中的不可靠敘述

1、 1Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Hu Quansheng, for his scrutiny and careful, patient guidance and continual encouragement that have been gu

2、iding and helping me all through my two and a half years postgraduate study. The completion of this thesis would have been impossible but for his patient yet rigorous supervision. I would also like to express my heart

3、felt thanks to Dr. Shang Biwu who has offered so many precious materials to me during the completion of my thesis, wishing him all the best in his future work and family life. Thanks also go to other faculty of the Sc

4、hool of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, especially for Ms. Zhang Hongmei and Ren Zhujing, for their patient guidance that have opened a new world for me. A special note of thanks goes to my mother fo

5、r her urging and encouraging me to complete my thesis, especially when I was in times of difficulty. Last but not the least, many thanks are extended to all the members of the defense committee for taking time and pati

6、ence to read the thesis and granting me this opportunity to defend it. 618-year- old Joyce Maynard. Salinger’s career of writing was hard and difficult and he had few famous works. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is his

7、only novel. Two years later after the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s first collection of short fiction Nine Stories was brought out. Besides, Franny and Zooey (1961); Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpe

8、nters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963) – all of these constitute Salinger’s saga. 1.1.2 The Catcher in the Rye Jerome David Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye gained immediate popularity among the American young rea

9、ders, especially the high school students, and it has been reprinted time and again. This story is about a sixteen-year-old boy, Caulfield, who finds all the people around him are phonies, suffers from the psychologica

10、l breakdown and ends up in the hospital. As the story starts, Caulfield is being expelled from the exclusive Pencey Prep School because he fails three out of four subjects. Having just returned from a trip to New York

11、, where he lost the team’s fencing gear on the subway, he has been summoned to meet with his old history teacher, Mr. Spencer, who tries to get to the bottom of the boy’s failure in his academic subjects. The conversatio

12、n between them leaves Caulfield unmoved. He extricates himself from the meeting with the excuse of getting equipment from the gym and heads back to his dorm. In Caulfield’s eyes, Pencey Prep never prepped anyone for anyt

13、hing or molded anybody into anything but a phony adult. Caulfield feels like the whole world is phony and there is nothing he hates more than someone who is phony. Yet, he will often act phony himself. Throughout the sto

14、ry, Holden Caulfield maintains a constant commentary on all events, characters and his inner feelings. The plot of the book just mainly focuses on what Caulfield has experienced in his three-day odyssey in New York. As C

15、aulfield does not want his parents to know that he is dismissed, he decides not to go home ahead of the Christmas holiday and hang out in his school, then he wanders around New York for a few days. He therefore decides

16、to take a room in a hotel in New York for a couple of days. And very soon he finds the hotel swarming with prostitutes and perverts. There, he experiences a lot of hypocrisy and filthiness and realizes the fact that the

17、 adult world is also a “phony” one. He feels extremely lonely and disillusioned about the world, so he decides to flee somewhere in the west to live his weird life. But his only worry is his dearest younger sister, Pho

18、ebe, so he sneaks home late at night to talk to his little sister. He talks with Phoebe without his parents ever knowing he is home. They talk about running away together because Phoebe comes across as the only non-phon

19、y person Caulfield can find and trust. He feels she is just like him and that she is the only person he can really relate to. In the novel, Caulfield is described as a black sheep: he drinks, smokes heavily, fight, stu

20、dies badly, speaks rudely, lies without thinking, and he even has relationship with a prostitute. However, Caulfield has the qualities of being sensitive, cynical and perspective. Salinger adopts first-person narration