Abstract
    
    J. D. Salinger is an influential writer in the post-war American literature. The Catcher in the Rye, the only novel of J. D. Salinger, experienced a long time to get its fame. In The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger depicted the struggle of the protagonist Holden in the adults’ world. This thesis begins with a brief introduction to the author and the novel, and then analyzes the conflicts from three main perspectives—the conflicts within Holden himself, the conflicts with the adult world, and the conflicts with the social reality of that time, to reveal the inevitability of his tragedy and its social significance.

Key words: Holden, conflicts, reality

摘要

J. D. 塞林格是第二次世界大战以后在美国文学中颇具影响力的一名作家。《麦田里的守望者》是塞林格唯一的一部小说，在经历长久的争议之后得到社会的肯定。在《麦田里的守望者》中，作者试图讲述以主人公霍尔顿为代表的未成年人在成人世界的挣扎。本文从简要介绍作者生平和小说入手，进而从三个主要方面—霍尔顿性格中本我与自我冲突，霍尔顿与成人世界的冲突以及霍尔顿与所处时代的社会现实的冲突，揭示霍尔顿悲剧的必然性和社会启示。

关键词：霍尔顿；冲突；现实

1.    Introduction
J. D. Salinger（1919—2010）was an outstanding author in the post-World War II American literature. As the representative work of Salinger，The Catcher in the Rye is an excellent fiction which makes him gain a reputation in the literary world, and makes him one of the most important novelists in the United States after World War II.
J. D. Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York City on January 1, 1919. His father was a Jewish importer and his mother was a Scotch-Irish Christian. When he was thirteen, his parents enrolled him in the Mcburney School, but he flunked out within one year. When he was fifteen, he was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania where he began to write short stories.