Holden Caulfield： An Outcast of His Society-An Analysis on Caulfield’s Spiritual Dilemma Based on American Character  

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2017年第1期66-69,共4页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：Holden Caulfield, hero of the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, occupied the center of many critics after its publication. Holden, as a sixteen-year-old teenager, is full of confusions on the threshold of adult world, and really needs his parents and the society’s guidance but nowhere can he get it; therefore, he gets lost on the threshold of adult world. This thesis tries to analyze Holden Caulfield’s spiritual dilemma based on the theory of American Character developed by David Riesman. America turned into an “other-directed” society after the World War II, which highly advocated personal achievements. Everyone at that time was deeply influenced by that social character. Holden failed to acquire the social character in “other-directed” society in his childhood; consequently, he became the outcast of his society, and stuck in the spiritual dilemma with no way to get out.

关 键 词：The Cather in the Rye other-directed society Gaze spiritual dilemma 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]