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1、 ImplicaturesImplicatures人英语专业毕业论文：美国现代小说人英语专业毕业论文：美国现代小说麦田里的守望者（麦田里的守望者（TheThe CatcherCatcher inin thethe RyeRye）：美国现代小说：美国现代小说麦田里的守望者（麦田里的守望者（TheThe CatcherCatcher inin thethe RyeRye）主题意义分析主题意义分析1. Introduction Jerome David Salinger (1916 ) was born in New York City, on January 1,1916.The Catcher
2、in the Rye published in 1951 is J.D.Salingers most successful novel. The novel tells a 16-year-old middle school boyHoldens living style in New York City. Because Holden is very poor at study, he is expelled from school. In order not to go home earlier than his parents get notice from school, he let
3、 himself roam in New York. The novel mainly depicts Holdens three-day adventure life and his psychological feelings. Holden is tied of modern civilizations hypocrisy and corruption, but he cant find the lifes aim. He thus becomes anxious、crazy and despairing. Although he tries to return to nature, b
4、ut at last he has to stay in the real society、learn to adjust himself and adapt the society gradually. As an early-maturing youngster, Holden was bitterly aware that modern society provided a poor even barren soil for the youth. It made the “edger”, who was growing up like him, stop to step into the
5、 future because of fear. In the world made of “children angels”and “adults evils”, to be “a catcher in the rye”was his unique meaningful job and his only moral choice. Different youths, parents and critics commented on this novel from different views. There were two main entirely different opinions.
6、 Some people extolled this book while other people criticized it severely. However with time going by, its place in the American literature is gradually stable and it was paid more attention by the critic circle. 2. The background of The Catcher in the Rye 2.1 J.D.Salinger Jerome David Salinger (191
7、6-) was born in New York City, on January 1,1916. He grew up in New Hampshire and later attended three colleges, but got no degree. As early as the age of fifteen he began writing, publishing his first short story when he was twenty-one. After service as an infantry sergeant in Europe during World W
8、ar he wrote more stories, most of which were published in Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, Story and other journals. Slingers first major work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), proves a whole generation in search of new values. Its adolescent hero, Holden Caulfield, is a literary descendant of Huck Hi
9、nn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, greed and, to use one of his own favorite words, phoniness. The novel also creates a pleasantly exciting and unique language of stammering youth. In Nine Stories (1
10、953) Salinger reveals that he is a master of the short story form. He introduced in it his chronicle of an eccentric, warm-hearted family named Glass, continued in his next books of stories. Salingers series of novels：Franny and Zooey (1961) and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour?An I
11、ntroduction (1963)?come out, in funny and irrelevant fashion, the myth of the gifted Glass family. Salinger was one of the most controversial authors of the post-war era, and was certainly one of the most influential among college youth from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Ironically his own persona
12、l implication, his insistence on privacy in an age of exposure, continued to the worship that grew around his work. The cult praises the virtues of childlike innocence and spiritual love at the expense of the more vigorous demands of life. 2.2 The social background The atomic explosion over Hiroshim
13、a and Nagasaki claimed the victory of the United Stated over Japan and the end of the Second World War as well. Never had a new historical era so abruptly befallen American as the cataclysm of atomic bombs on Japanese. The Atomic Age has unmistakably asserted itself and Americans were suddenly broug
14、ht to face a completely new world in which old rules and guidelines turned out to be helpless. After the war, the United States got even more involved in the international affairs. Americas rival with the Soviet Union resulted in the initial of the Cold War. Its mark was the implement of the Truman
15、Doctrine in 1947,the principle of ridiculously supporting anti-Communist regimes with massive aid and the Marshall Plan, the investment of vast sums of money by the United States to help reconstruction of Europe. By 1949,the further hostility and tension procured two military opposing groups?NATO, t
16、he North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact, an alliance of the nations of Eastern Europe. In 1950, McCarthy, a notorious senator, suggested investigating so-called un-American activities in governmental establishments. Under the pretence of these investigations, the reactionary forces in the U.S. intensified their persecution of communists and progressives. As Trumans containment to East Asia faltered, Korean War broke out. In the 1950s,the “Beat” writers, in
