摘要：

《麦田里的守望者》是杰罗姆•大卫•塞林格的小说，讲述了主人公霍尔顿带着青春期的迷茫进入成人社会，经历理想与社会现实的冲突。本论文本论文主要有四部分构成：简介，文献综述，讨论，结论。论文重点从环境因素方面分析主人公成长过程中的迷惑及其原因，与此同时结合当代大学的困惑，尤其是毕业生走出校门后，如何完善自我、适应社会现实，并且调整自己、重新发现自我，进行比较分析，为读者提供更深的诠释关于主人公，关于年轻人成长中的困惑以及我们生存的现代社会人们的精神匮乏以及社会的现实。

关键词：《麦田里的守望者》; 大学毕业生; 迷惘

Abstract:

Jerome David Salinger’s novel the Catcher in the Rye tells us that the protagonist of the novel- Holden steps into the adult society with the confusion of the adolescence, and he experiences the conflicts between the dream and the reality of society. This paper includes: the introduction, literature review, discussion, conclusion. And this paper mainly analyses the confusion of the protagonist, and the causes of the confusion from the environment of Holden lives in. At the same time, it combines the problems with the contemporary college graduates’, which is about the similar confusions on how to accept themselves and adapt to the society, and while adjust themselves and find a new self when they get out from school. This paper will give the reader detailed explanations about the protagonist, the confusion of the young during the period they grow up, the people’s spiritual deficiency and the social reality in the modern society.

Key words: the Catcher in the Rye; graduate; paradox

1. Introduction
The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most typical initiation novels in the twentieth century of American literature. It was written by J. D. Salinger and published in 1951. The novel is quite popular among young Americans. This novel shows the particular paradox that Holden goes through, the various failures to deal with his confusion, and the particular solution by the end of it. It is representative which vividly describes the adolescent confusion in search of the identity and the place in the human world. To the adolescences, the transitional period from childhood to adulthood is a special time in a person's life. The protagonist in the Catcher in the Rye-Holden Caulfield, he confronts with the social problems which are brought by the post-Second World War American civilization.