独自的精神流浪之旅——从社会性格分析霍尔顿的精神困境

A Solitary Spiritual Wandering——An Analysis on Caulfield's Spiritual Dilemma with the Theory of “Other-directed” Society

二战后的美国成为一个"他人导向型"社会,社区里的每个人都努力寻求来自他人、社会的认同。战后高度的物质文明让美国梦日益物质化,财富和地位成为唯一的评价标准。《麦田里的守望者》中的霍尔顿由于在童年时期未能习得"他人导向型"社会的共有价值观,从而成为社会的弃儿,最终陷入无法解决的精神困境。

America turn into an＂other- directed＂society after the World War II,which resulted in everyone in community seeking approval of others. Meanwhile,with the materialization of American Dream,social status and wealth became the prevailing criteria.Holden Caulfield in The Cather in the Rye failed to acquire the prevailing value system in＂other- directed＂society in his childhood,and then became the outcast of his society,consequently,he was stuck in the spiritual dilemma that he could not find a way to get out.