holden caulfield a rebellious hero against mainstream culture in the catcher in the rye 英语专业毕业论文.doc

Holden Caulfield: A Rebellious Hero against Mainstream Culture in the Catcher in the RyeCONTENTI.IntroductionII.The Connotation of the Mainstream Culture in 1950sIII. Rebellion in Holden’s 3.1 Rebellion against the Clique Spirit of Pencey Prep3.2 Rebellion in Holden’s Speech 3.3.1 Loose Danglings3.3.2 The “Grammatical Errors” in Holden’s Speech3.3.3 The “Vulgarity” and “Obscenity” in Holden’s Speech3.3.4 Holden’s SlangsIV.Conclusion V. BibliographyVI. AcknowledgementAbstract J.D.Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is a “modern classic”, as one of the most controversial novels in the contemporary American literature. my paper illustrates Holden’s rebellion，mainly analyzing Holden’s rebellion in three aspects: Holden rejects the clique spirit--form personal–interest clique and discriminate against dissenters，which Pencey Prep embodies ; he completely denies the core part of the mainstream culture-the pursuit of the American Dream， the pursuit of the material success，thoroughly exposing the deceptiveness and corruption of the American Dream and shattering its requirements of him into pieces; his acts show the characteristics of“escape”-he considers the social status and material success，which the masses are fascinated with，worthless and runs farther and farther away from the mainstream culture，and his violent language shares the common characteristics with that of the counter-culture movement: various kinds of language expression whose existence cannot be permitted by the mainstream culture-loose danglings and perpetual insistences，grammatical errors obscenity and profanity in his speech and the slangs are like daggers thrown at the heart of the mainstream culture.Holden clearly shows his rebellion against American mainstream culture in 1950s. Also with this comprehensive interpretation will the hero--Holden be deeply understood.KEY WORDS: Holden; the mainstream culture; rebellion摘要J.D.塞林格的《麦田里的守望者》是一部“现代经典”，是当代美国文学中最具争议性的一部小说。

小说通过霍尔顿·考尔菲德(Holden Caulfield)离开潘西中学后在纽约的游荡经历,深刻地揭示了现代社会中的疏离感和孤独感霍尔顿厌倦同学间的冷漠、欺诈和虚假他只身到纽约游逛，进而发现社会更加平庸、鄙俗和腐败他感到非常沮丧霍尔顿似乎代表了所有的年轻人,他们觉得自己被来自四面八方的各种压力所包围,他们要成长,并要按照准则去生活,要断绝有意义的人际接触,要抑制自己的个性,并顺应一个索然无味的文化标准 论文主要从三个方面加以分析:作为一个不随波逐流、不妥协、不服从的主人公，霍尔顿抵制潘西中学所体现的拉帮结派、排斥异己的“团体”精神，他完全否定主流文化的核心表现形式美国梦对个体的要求，彻底揭露了美国梦的欺骗性和腐败性:他采取逃遁的反叛形式，对群体社会中大众竭力去追求的社会地位和物质财富不屑一顾，以自己坚决的行为离主流文化越来越远;他激烈的言辞则具有战后反文化运动语言的相同特征:大量的句末附着语和添加附着语、语法错误、粗俗语和污秽语以及俚语等丰富多样的但为主流文化所不容的语言表现形式，像匕首，像投枪，直入主流文化的心脏霍尔顿鲜明地表现了对50年代主流文化的反叛同时，通过这一深入阐释，对霍尔顿这个人物有更深入的理解。

关键词：霍尔顿;主流文化;反叛I.IntroductionJerome David Salinger (1919- ), an outstanding American novelist and short story writer, is best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Salinger is recognized by many critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of American writers after World War II. His only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, has become one of the two “modern classics” in contemporary American literature. First published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States, the most controversial novel in American contemporary letters. Surprisingly, the first reviewers of The Catcher in the Rye were mixed. Some reviewers praised the novellas a significant success. S.N.Behrman wrote a lengthy and very favorable review in New Yorker, and Clifton Fadiman wrote, “That rare miracle of fiction has again come to pass: a human being has been created out of ink, paper, and the imagination.” In a review that appeared in New York Times on the day of the novel’s publication, Nash K.Burger called The Catcher in the Rye “an unusually brilliant first novel” and Paul Engle, in the Chicargo Tribunt, found it“engaging and believable”, a novel “full of right observation and sharp insight.” Other critics were less enthusiastic about it. Anne Goodman, in New Public, said that “the book as a whole is disappointing”. It is “a brilliant tour-de-force, but in a writer of Salinger’s undeniable talent one expects something more”. Ernest Jones admitted that The Catcher in the Rye was a case history of all of us, but he said that though the book was always lively in its parts, The Catcher in the Rye, as a whole was predictable and boring. In England, the critic for Times Literary Supplement has also thought Holden is very touching and the endless stream of blasphemy and obscenity in which he talks is incredible.Even less enthusiastic were the notices that appeared in Catholic World. Reley Hughes, the reviewer in Catholic World complained about the novel’s excessive use of amateur swearing and coarse language, which, he argued, made Holden’s iconoclastic character monotonous and phony. Morris Longstreth, writing for Christian Science Monitor, found the novel to be wholly repellent in its mingled vulgarity and sly perversion. Longstreth concluded 。