麦田和红色的背后——论《麦田里的守望者》的象征艺术

Behind the rye and the red color——Symbolism in the catcher in the rye

《麦田里的守望者》是公认的美国文学"现代经典"之一,小说的主人公霍尔顿也是一个倍受评论家关注的形象。他厌恶现实社会的"假模假式",希望能返回理想世界寻求庇护。文章通过考察麦田和红色鸭舌帽的象征意义来揭示霍尔顿精神世界的转变。

The Catcher in the Ray is regarded as one of the most popular modem classics in American literature, and the hero of this novel, Holden Caulfield, also attracted a lot of critics＇ attention as soon as the novel was published. Holden was a 16 - year - old boy who wanted to escape from reality and seek for sheltering in utopia because of the phoniness. This paper focuses on the image of the rye and the red hunting hat, which will reveal the hero＇ s change-from a catcher to a hermit in the capitalistic society.