Highlight: The Catcher in the Rye is the only novel written by American writer Jerome David Salinger. Salinger limited the story to three days when Holden Caulfield, a 65,438+06-year-old middle school student, left school and wandered to Manhattan, and used the unrestrained stream of consciousness writing method for reference to fully explore the inner world of a teenager. Anger and anxiety are the two main themes of this book. The hero's experience and thoughts aroused strong repercussions among teenagers and were warmly welcomed by readers, especially college students and middle school students. The New York Times's book review wrote: In the United States, reading The Catcher in the Rye is as important as getting the approval of your tutor when you graduate. Later, The Catcher in the Rye directly influenced the creation of a novel.

Comments on The Catcher in the Rye: The social reality it represents is the social reality of the commercial society. In the commercial society, the interest relationship is emphasized unprecedentedly in the social consciousness, and its influence is maximized. Because the interest relationship has been emphasized to the greatest extent, the relationship between thought and emotion has retreated behind the scenes, and the sincerity needed for the connection between thought and emotion has become indifferent, which often promotes the hypocrisy of personal interests. The wind of hypocrisy is getting worse and worse, which has become an important feature of interpersonal relationships in commercial society. Children running in the wheat field may fall off the cliff at any time, symbolizing that innocent people are always threatened by social moral degradation, they may fall into the moral quagmire of alienation, they may be corroded by the materialistic commercial society at that time, lose their true selves, and move towards identity alienation in the crisis of moral alienation. Holden dreamed of becoming a catcher in the rye. He wants to save those innocent people who are in danger, so that they will not be hurt mentally, so that they will always be innocent, so that they will stick to their moral stand and not suffer from depravity. Here, Holden positioned himself as a moral savior and expressed his dissatisfaction with the moral degeneration of the society at that time.