英语时文泛读读书笔记
学院：外国语学院专业：英语
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学号：N3110210104
书名：《The Catcher in the Rye》作 者 名：J.D.Salinger出 版 信 息：凤凰出版社2011年8月
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Title:The Catcher in the Rye
Total number of pages:448pp
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J.D.Salinger.Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, language, and rebellion.It has been translated into almost all of the world\'s major languages.Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books.The novel\'s protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.
The novel was included on Time\'s 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.It has been frequently challenged in the United States and other countries for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst.It also deals with complex
iues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation.
Reception: The Catcher in the Rye has been listed as one of the best novels of the 20th century.Shortly after its publication, writing for The New York Times, Nash K.Burger called it \"an unusually brilliant novel,\" while James Stern wrote an admiring review of the book in a voice imitating Holden\'s.41st United States president George H.W.Bush called it \"a marvelous book,\" listing it among the books that have inspired him.In June 2009, the BBC\'s Finlo Rohrer wrote that, 58 years since publication, the book is still regarded \"as the defining work on what it is like to be a teenager.Holden is at various times disaffected, disgruntled, alienated, isolated, directionle, and sarcastic.\" Adam Gopnik considers it one of the \"three perfect books\" in American literature, along with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby, and believes that \"no book has ever captured a city better than Catcher in the Rye captured New York in the fifties.\"
About author：
Jerome David Salinger was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature.His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II.In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular succe.His depiction of adolescent alienation and lo of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.The novel remains widely read and controversial, selling around 250,000 copies a year.
Plot summary:
The majority of the novel takes place in December 1949.The story commences with Holden Caulfield describing encounters he has had with students and faculty of Pencey Prep (In addition, scholars often compare Pencey Prep to Valley Forge Military Academy, which Salinger attended from the ages of 15 to 17) in Agerstown, Pennsylvania .
He criticizes them for being superficial, or, as he would say, \"phony.\" After being expelled from the school for his poor academic performance, Holden packs up and leaves the school in the middle of the night after a physical
altercation with his roommate.He takes a train to New York but does not want to return to his family and instead checks into the dilapidated Edmont Hotel.There, he spends an evening dancing with three tourist girls and has a clumsy encounter with a young prostitute named Sunny.His attitude toward the prostitute changes the minute she enters the room, because she seems to be about the same age as Holden.Holden becomes uncomfortable with the situation, and when he tells her that all he wants to do is talk, she becomes annoyed with him and leaves.However, he still pays her for her time.Sunny and Maurice, her pimp, later return to Holden\'s hotel room and demand more money than was originally agreed upon.Despite the fact that Sunny takes five dollars from Holden\'s wallet, Maurice punches Holden in the stomach.
My opinion about the story
In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger, the main character Holden Caulfield has many different kinds of relationship with different people.Some of them are very important for Holden’s life because he likes and admires them; Holden also hates some of the people he has relationship with.Everyone who has a relationship with Holden affects him which shows Holden’s personality.The novel uses Holden’s relationship with his siblings Phoebe,
D.B., and Allie to show different parts of Holden’s character.
Instead of acknowledging that adulthood scares and mystifies him, Holden invents a fantasy that adulthood is a world of superficiality and hypocrisy (“phonine”), while childhood is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty.Nothing reveals his image of these two worlds better than his fantasy about the catcher in the rye: he imagines childhood as an idyllic field of rye in which children romp and play; adulthood, for the children of this world, is equivalent to death—a fatal fall over the edge of a cliff.His created understandings of childhood and adulthood allow Holden to cut himself off from the world
by covering himself with a protective armor of cynicism.But as the book progrees, Holden’s experiences,
particularly his encounters with Mr.Antolini and Phoebe, reveal the shallowne of his conceptions.
