第一篇：麥田里的守望者 英文版 讀書報(bào)告

Catcher in the rye

10140128 陳葭碧 Catcher in the rye wrote a 16 years old boy,called Holden ,who was born in a rich middle class family.He escaped from school after being expelled in the fourth time.Then he went to the United States of New York city in one day and two nights.The whole story tells ahout his such a special experience.It not only vividly depicted a delicate restlessness of the middle class children’s depressed, lonely and cynical spirit world,and the psychological characteristics of adolescents’ a mass of contradictions, but also criticized the the hypocrisy in the adult society.The beginning of the story from Pencey school.Pencey middle school is very famous and has a great popularity in people's minds, however, the hero describes the pencey middle school follow as “ Pencey is just as other schools,it can’t cultivate talents at all.And I don’t see any outstanding , intelligent and excellent students.” Besides, he also said there are a plenty of thieves in pencey middle school.In holden's opinion, the most unforgivable thing in that school is fuilled with hypocritical people, especially the principal.He is very snobbish.When he sees ordinary parents,he just say hello to them.While see the rich and powerful who drive a good car, he will talk with them enthusiasmly in a long time.Besides the disgusted Acle and Mr Rudd tower.The reason that Holden leaves pencey is not for he failed six subjects, but there are a lot hypocrite people.Even if there are endless glory and splendor, but the entire campus is indifferent and almost to be a no human world.There is no happiness in Holden's world.Even if he can feel happy, it is only a few people to give him.His reject good things, although it is a real concern.When his history teacher Spencer tells him that his parents are the best persons.He felt very disgusted, he heartily hates the word “better”.While it's hard for me to imagine, as a child,why he could think so ugly about the world? Though there are many ugly things in this world, too.He even thinks some tiny little things very hateful.When he sees a boy who is just like a guy in the street and get together with his girlfriend.If they laugh constantly, he thinks their laugh is simply but not funny.Seeing somebody else playing a tune, he also thinks the man is just show off his ability.Seeing a woman with a child is being moved and cry at the movies, he also considered a phony.He even boring to hate Christians.In Holden's eyes, all sorts of things is just a fake death of farce.When Holden sees the ugly side of life, he tells his loneliness without any reservation.This kind of loneliness is not a simple sadness in the sense of solitude, but it is not a person can really understand him.Although he hates Mr Rudd tower, he would also like to dance in front of him.“I also need an audience and I also like to in front of others to show off myself” This is the voice of his heart, he need to hear, to understand and not a elegantly false face and the soft greetings.Can a person feel happy without the audiences? The bus drivers wants him to throw snowballs, and he said he will not threw to anyone, but the bus driver doesn’t believe.“People just don't believe your words” Holton said：“No one understands him.The meet between the old man and him is not happy, because their views are opposite.But one the other hand, he is very desire to communicate with the old man.According to our today's understanding, if the man is not bosom friend, it isn’t necessary to explain.However he is too lonely, no one accompanies to him and talk to him,so he was very lonely.Thus under inevitable loneliness, he even thought to find prostitutes and he just wants to talk with her, but the final result is being deceived and has also been beat by the rascal Maurice.In our opinion, holden isn't a good student, but he has innocence and kindness in his heart just like other children's.When he take a taxi for twice, he asked the driver that:”Where should shallow-water ducks go in the central park when the lake is frozen ?”This is a funny question.Holden concerned about ducks and nature.So he is also sympathetic.In Edmond hotel, when he saw a old man worked as the waiter.Then he thought it is very difficult to let an old man to do such a thing.Having encountered bad suitcase in hand, the two sister eat only bread and coffee for breakfast, he even still hate to eat salted fish eggs.And thought that when they didn't teach ,how can they take the old straw basket to raise money in everywhere and will meet all kinds of situations, even attract by others despistion.From these things,we can conclude that he was very sympathetic.His brother and sister had a larger influence on holden's life.Alli have dead for a long time.On that day of Alli’s death , holden broken all of the windowsuntil his hands were bleeding.We can see that Alli ,as it were, the most important person in his life.This is not a fake.it is undoubtedly a huge strike for holden on her death.She wanted to escape from this world and to find her own spiritual home.He said to Sally:”They can go to the forest to built their own cabin by themselves and leave away from the people.Even their relativest come to visit them,they still don’t welcome.” In fact, Holden doesn’t hate this world, but hate something ugly.In Galveston, the poor James Kaiser was killed by a group of guys.However that group of boys are still escaping.The world really has a dark side, and even today, although the state attaches great importance to the legal system, but there are still many people ignore the law under the various network of relationships.We don't have to worry about these, because frankly speaking, we can't change the circumstances.Jsut like holden can't change the time, sometimes, we’d better be ourselves.Holden’s character is very complex, on the one hand, he himself has many problems, he criticizes people around him, but times displays as much phoniness, meanness and superficality as anyone else in the book.On the other hand, his spiritual world is innocent, he hates all phony things while seeks sincerity and love and he himself is a person full of love.He loves children, because children from falling into the cliff referring to the adult world which he associates with hypocrisy and ugliness.He doesn’t want children to step into the adult world;he wants them to stay innocent forever.That is why when he sees the word “fuck you” on the wall of Phoebe’s school he is so angry that he even wants to kill the guy who wrote it.His degeneration is in essence a kind of resistance, because he doesn’t want to wallow in mire with those guys he despises.“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.Thousands of little kids, and nobody'saround--nobody big, I mean--except me.And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.That's all I'd do all day.I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”This paragraph is the most famous part from the story.And to some extent,it reflects why the book is named by Catcher in the rye.Holden was those of a very troubled person who deserved our sympathy more often than our praise.A close look at what Holden did, nonetheless, revealed that he possessed very strong moral, compassionate instincts.Though Holden struggled against everything, even left away from the real world, he choose to adjusted himself to accept the real world to be a catcher in the real life.The Catcher in the Rye left many useful points to us for cogitation.Thus instead of treating the novel as a commentary by a innocent young man rebelling against an intensive world or as a study of a youth's moral growth, we regarded it as a guide that give us a hand to overcome the depression when we are stuck in it.We should learn to adjust ourself to the society.With an acceleration in the rate of economic growth, college graduates have to fight for jobs in a highly competitive market.What we need is not only the high level of competence in our profession, but also the practical and sensible trait to realize the fact that we shouldn't give up until we have exhausted all the possibilities.Facing with the confuse problems, we should never compromise to them.We should accommodate ourself to live in the world.And it is the faith that pulls Holden back into the society.One who liv in that faith will never feel lonely or lose the way.

第二篇：麥田里的守望者讀書報(bào)告

《麥田里的守望者》讀后感

那天去書店，我從一大堆世界名著中挑了一本很薄的書，名字叫《麥田里的守望者》，在我拿起這本書時(shí)，我沒(méi)有想到這么薄的一本書會(huì)對(duì)我產(chǎn)生這么大的影響，使我感觸很深，我覺(jué)得這本書的形式和內(nèi)容都很出色。

《麥田里的守望者》中的主人公是16歲的中學(xué)生霍爾頓.考爾德，他出生于紐約一個(gè)富裕的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家庭。學(xué)校里的老師和家鄉(xiāng)強(qiáng)迫他好好學(xué)習(xí)，為的是出人頭地，以便將來(lái)買輛凱迪拉克。而他在學(xué)校一天到晚所干的，就是談女人、酒和性，他看不慣周圍的一切，根本沒(méi)心思用功讀書，因此老是挨罰。到他第四次被開(kāi)除時(shí)，他不敢回家，便只身在美國(guó)最繁華的紐約城游蕩了一天兩夜，住小客店，逛夜總會(huì)，濫交女友。他在電影院里百無(wú)聊賴地消磨時(shí)光，糊里糊涂地招了妓女，情不自禁地與虛榮的女友摟摟抱抱。與此同時(shí)，她的內(nèi)心又十分苦悶，企圖逃出虛偽的成人世界，去尋找純潔和真理。這種精神上無(wú)法調(diào)和的極度矛盾最終令他徹底崩潰，躺倒在精神病院里。

一開(kāi)始讀《麥田里的守望者》，并沒(méi)有想象中那么喜歡，因?yàn)閹缀趺恳欢挝淖侄紩?huì)夾雜著一兩句“他媽的”或者是“混賬”之類的粗口，這是在其他書里還沒(méi)有遇到過(guò)的情況。另外，讀了一大半書后，也沒(méi)有發(fā)現(xiàn)有什么是能和麥田里的守望者能扯上關(guān)系的。可是，我想，既然作者能用這幾個(gè)字作為書的標(biāo)題，一定有它的合理之處，那么麥田里的守望者究竟指什么呢？帶著這個(gè)疑問(wèn)，我有接著往下讀。其實(shí)，說(shuō)實(shí)在的，一開(kāi)始，我真的不太喜歡該書的主人公霍爾頓。他的頹廢、消極、滿口的臟話讓我難以理解，甚至無(wú)法忍受?？墒牵瑵u漸的才發(fā)現(xiàn)，原來(lái)霍爾頓的彷徨、叛逆、玩世不恭都是有原因的，是因?yàn)楫?dāng)時(shí)所處的環(huán)境使他變得抑郁、憂傷、病態(tài)。在這種環(huán)境的壓迫下，他別無(wú)選擇，他只好漸漸地掩藏起他那顆敏感、脆弱而又善良的心。

或許，從表面上看來(lái)，霍爾頓不求上進(jìn)、揮霍無(wú)度，他還不學(xué)無(wú)術(shù)、卻總在抱怨，但是如果你細(xì)細(xì)地品味過(guò)這本書，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)霍爾頓其實(shí)有它天真和善良的一面。雖然，他看似對(duì)所有事情都是否定的，對(duì)所有人都是懷疑的。但事實(shí)上，他懂得欣賞，懂得愛(ài)，他感情豐富，他細(xì)膩敏感。他是一個(gè)真正熱愛(ài)生活的孩子，在他的心靈深處對(duì)幸福有著很大的期待和渴望?！坝心敲匆蝗盒『⒆釉谀敲匆淮髩K麥田里做游戲。幾千幾萬(wàn)個(gè)小孩子，附近沒(méi)有一個(gè)人——沒(méi)有一個(gè)大人，我是說(shuō)——除了我。我呢，就站在那混賬的懸崖邊。我的職務(wù)是在那兒守望，要是有哪個(gè)孩子往懸崖邊奔來(lái)，我就把他捉住——我是說(shuō)孩子們都在狂奔，也不知道自己是在往哪兒跑，我得從什么地方出來(lái)，把他們捉住。我整天就干這樣的事。我只想當(dāng)個(gè)麥田里的守望者。”這是霍爾頓對(duì)他的妹妹菲比說(shuō)的一段話。從這段話中，我們可以看到，霍爾頓渴望幸福，可是幸福卻是那么的遙不可及。他不過(guò)是想離開(kāi)那個(gè)浮躁的地方，找一片純凈的麥田，過(guò)簡(jiǎn)單的生活，尋找簡(jiǎn)單的幸福?？墒?，他就一個(gè)這么簡(jiǎn)單的愿望，也難以實(shí)現(xiàn)，這就是霍爾頓的悲哀。

我們是一群生活在新時(shí)代的孩子，自然已經(jīng)習(xí)慣了困惑和煩惱，但是我們應(yīng)該集中精神看準(zhǔn)我們的前方，我們的路，我們應(yīng)該是一群有理想有抱負(fù)的人。.理想是人的指路明燈，它帶著人走向未來(lái)，走向光明.我們的人生才剛剛開(kāi)始，縱然生活讓我們這代人有些迷惘和彷徨，但一切不過(guò)是暫時(shí)的，不就都會(huì)過(guò)去，我們現(xiàn)在最需要的，就是我們的理想.每一個(gè)孩子，以及每一個(gè)曾經(jīng)是孩子的大人們，都一定在成長(zhǎng)的路上，或多或少有過(guò)霍爾頓式的叛逆。早晨醒來(lái)時(shí)突然就厭倦了這樣的生活，或者不如意的時(shí)候在心里小聲地抱怨漫罵，再乖再聽(tīng)話的孩子，都一定有過(guò)。那些一閃而過(guò)的念頭，被生活的洪流瞬間卷走。于是我們最終還是會(huì)順著一條直線一樣平滑的軌跡走下去，沒(méi)有半點(diǎn)角度偏轉(zhuǎn)。只有極少數(shù)的，脫離了原本的軌跡，被內(nèi)心的意愿帶去沒(méi)有盡頭的遠(yuǎn)方。好象霍爾頓那樣，無(wú)法接受這個(gè)世界的真相。于是放棄偽裝和妥協(xié)，生活在程序之外。我不能說(shuō)，究竟那一種生活是會(huì)更

幸福，更光明。但是我在霍爾頓身上，看到的是一種在任何時(shí)代都終將不會(huì)被磨滅的真誠(chéng)。每次讀《麥田里的守望者》，都會(huì)被這種粗糙的真誠(chéng)所打動(dòng)?；魻栴D看不慣周圍的一切，他沒(méi)有辦法和其他人一樣麻木地在這種虛偽膚淺世俗勢(shì)利的環(huán)境當(dāng)中混沌過(guò)日。在他壞孩子的外表下，其實(shí)藏著一顆純真執(zhí)著不愿同流合污的赤子之心。正因?yàn)檫@顆比其他人更敏感高貴的心，將他帶離那個(gè)混亂的學(xué)校和人群，而被他人視為異類。想起來(lái)，真的很諷刺。其實(shí)，霍爾頓的迷茫和矛盾，不僅僅是他一個(gè)人的迷茫和矛盾，而是每一個(gè)處在青春期的孩子的通病。無(wú)論在五十年代，八十年代，甚至往后的未來(lái)，未來(lái)的未來(lái)，只要人類存在，它便不會(huì)消失——當(dāng)我們有一天突然發(fā)現(xiàn)到這個(gè)世界不符合我們的夢(mèng)想的時(shí)候，有人苦悶，有人掙扎，但絕沒(méi)有一個(gè)人，會(huì)輕易地就接受事實(shí)。于是迷茫和矛盾，生生不息，無(wú)限循環(huán)?；魻栴D選擇了一種消極的逃避方式，帶著一點(diǎn)倔強(qiáng)，一點(diǎn)恐懼，一點(diǎn)不安的復(fù)雜心理，在紙醉金迷的紐約城游蕩了一天兩夜。事實(shí)上，我們更多的人最終是無(wú)奈妥協(xié)，無(wú)力對(duì)抗，連半天脫離軌道的時(shí)間都絕不允許。掖藏著心里小小的憤世嫉俗，隱忍著沖動(dòng)的暴躁情緒，小心翼翼地生活。

愿望越長(zhǎng)越大，越長(zhǎng)越重。終于連同我們的翅膀一起扯下?；魻栴D說(shuō)，有那么一群小孩子在一大塊麥田里做游戲。幾千幾萬(wàn)個(gè)小孩子，附近沒(méi)有一個(gè)人--沒(méi)有一個(gè)大人，我是說(shuō)--除了我。我的職務(wù)是在那兒守望，要是有哪個(gè)孩子往懸崖邊奔來(lái)，我就把他捉住。我整天就干這樣的事。我只想當(dāng)個(gè)麥田里的守望者。

我們窮其一生都在尋找，尋找我們的信仰，我們的追求，我們的夢(mèng)。盡管在美好理想和殘酷現(xiàn)實(shí)的巨大落差面前有點(diǎn)心虛，有點(diǎn)猶豫，那也只是一時(shí)的。沒(méi)事的，等長(zhǎng)大就好了。長(zhǎng)大就沒(méi)事了。我常常在心里這樣小聲安慰自己。在我看來(lái)，所有不正常的情緒都只是因?yàn)槲覀冞€太年輕，太不成熟。所謂的青春叛逆期，我猜，也許只是任性的彼得潘搞的孩子氣的鬼把戲吧。而每個(gè)長(zhǎng)大了的孩子都要一一向彼得告別。就此告別，從此不見(jiàn)。不見(jiàn)了，困擾我們整個(gè)少年時(shí)代的稚嫩得還未經(jīng)風(fēng)雨的惆悵，沒(méi)來(lái)由的憂傷和恐懼，一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)隱沒(méi)在來(lái)時(shí)路的風(fēng)景里，一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)被風(fēng)吹走，還有一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，亦不需要刻意躲避。因?yàn)檫^(guò)不了多久，連我們自己都要忘記了。

可是我們永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)忘記，我們?cè)?jīng)多么艱難地走在這條被無(wú)數(shù)前人踩出來(lái)的路上。而我們之后，依舊有前赴后繼的孩子，帶著同樣悲壯和矛盾的心情，義無(wú)返顧地追隨至此。你知道，一個(gè)人的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)才兵荒馬亂，最讓人無(wú)力抵抗。所以經(jīng)歷了青春期種種心靈考驗(yàn)的預(yù)演，我們也許已經(jīng)堅(jiān)強(qiáng)得足以面對(duì)人生的任何挑戰(zhàn)。我們是空前絕后的一代人，背負(fù)著兩代人的夢(mèng)想及整個(gè)社會(huì)的責(zé)任。仿佛眾望所歸。

于是，當(dāng)我們平安無(wú)事地走出青春的迷宮，整個(gè)世界都是我們的

第三篇：麥田里的守望者英文讀后感

The Catcher in the Rye Part one Story Synopsis The hero of the story called Holden,he was a middle school student,but he didn’t like studying at all.He was tired of everything in the school.So he was expelled from school for the fourth time.In the removed that night,Holden left school,but he was afraid to go home.In desperation,Holden lived in a small hotel.However,it was a chaos of hotel,some shady people lived there,here Holden made a lot of stupid things.Later,he and his girlfriend split up.Then Holden to the bar to drink with an old school friend,he got very drunk,he put his head in cold water for a while,just wake up.When he walked out of the pub, be cold wind blows, the hair of his head was frozen.He thought he might die from pneumonia, always can't see his sister, decided to take the plunge and home her farewell.Holden secretly returned home, he said to sister his ideal, he will want to be a catcher in the rye.Later, his parents came back, Holden frighten hide in closet.When his parents went to the bedroom, he quickly slipped out of the house, to a his respected teacher spend the night in the home.Holden didn't want to go home, decided to go to the west to make a living, but he wanted to in the face before walked bye sister, so he dated sister to the museum.But his sister, dragging a big suitcase full of her clothes, she must go with Holden to the western.Finally, for sister persuade invalid，Holden had to give up his plan to the west, then he took her to the zoo.And Holden decided not to run away.He went home shortly he had illness and was sent to a nursing home.Part two Book Report

This is a novel about adolescent psychological problems.From the point of subject, like all young men, the hero is a liberal person, but he doesn't handle their own problems, at the same time, he was also confused, he don't know their future.Perhaps everyone in a teenager have encountered similar problems, when we are at that time we offen not to talk about own confusion,so we may enter a wrong way,bringing harm to myself.So after finished reading this book, I realize the importance of mental health, when we meet with difficulties, we should actively to face, and efforts to solve every problem,can't give up myself,we must have the courage to face the reality.

第四篇：《麥田里的守望者》讀后感(英文)

The catcher in the Rye is a typical novel which reflects the confusion and rebel of the 1950s in America history.From year 1945-1955, the American society seemed to be blissful on the surface while the fear of uncertainty caused by the growing communist challenge was affecting the culture of society.People became paranoiac and youngsters of the time became rebel or even violent resulting from the lost of aim and belief.Holton, the main character of this novel, is portrayed by the author as a typical teenager of the time.Born in a wealthy middle class family, Holton was supposed to live a good life.However, he expelled from school four times, not dare to go home, wandering alone in York city one day and two nights, living in small inn, going to nightclubs, being alcoholism.He wanted to escape from the real world because he feel depressed, confused, filled with all sorts of unrealistic fantasies.This novel can be defined as both the tragedy of Holton's and the author Salinger, who is a young people of that generation.In 1950, the Korean War started, which was an extension of the Cold War which strengthened the hostilities and conflicts between America and the Soviet Union.It definitely leaded to the panic of normal people because they were uncertain about the result of the competition between the superpowers.Teenagers were emotionally confused of the changing society, doubting their life and their future.Salinger has also written other novels such as Nine Stories, a collection of short stories even more depressed than The catcher in the Rye, which at least have expressed some hope at the end of the novel.Actually, characters like Holton become popular at that time, not in

literature only.In the film Rebel Without a Cause describe a very similar situation, the tendency of rebel and violence among youngsters in American culture at that time.In the early 1950s, the accumulation of emotions and conflicts were bedding the transform a few years later, which had significant influence on American culture of that period.

第五篇：麥田里的守望者英文讀后感

麥田里的守望者英文讀后感

（一）The leading role Holden Caulfield is a sixteen-year-old school student who was born in a rich family.Although he is rich and kind, no one in the school likes to get along with him.So he always feels constantly lonesome.Such as like the book says “His loneliness arises from the fact that no one seems to share his view of the world, no one understands what's going on in his head.” In his view, school is a hypocritical place.The purpose that you go to school is only to get a good job or beat others.The surroundings talk about wine, women and sex all days.Holden hates this society.He never puts his heart in study so he is always be punished by teachers.And when he is flunked out of school the forth time, he doesn't go home but stays in New York—the place where he was born and lived.That is just the time several days before Christmas.He lives in hotel, stays in the bars all the day, makes many girlfriends and drinks heavily.At the same time, he feels sad about the teenager and the life.He feels what he never thinks before in the true life.He wants to escape from this society but he can't.This is just the background of Holden's story.During this time, Holden thinks of many things and many important people to him.Except introduces Holden's life in New York, the book also tells us Holden's life in school and some important people and things to him.麥田里的守望者英文讀后感

（二）Impression of a book of “persons who keep watch in the wheat field.”

Went to the bookstore that day, I chose a very thin book from a lot of world masterpieces, name let “ wheat persons who keep watch of field ”，when I pick up this book, I have not expected that such a thin book will have a so great impact on me, making my thoughts and feelings very deep, I think that the form and content of this book are all very outstanding.The fifties in U.S.A.were a quite confused period, the dark cloud of World War II has not left yet, the smoke of gunpowder of cold war arises again.On one hand the development in science and technology is fast, and on the other hand, people lack the ideal, demoralized, under the great social background unable to change in oneself, live and mix shocking and shocking life.Then, “ a generation of collapsing ” appears , Halton is a member among them , he smokes and gets drunk, not to strive to make progress, but, he is still unlikely to reduce to taking drug, gregarious stage,()because in his bottom of heart , still have a beautiful and remote ideal all the time---Do a “ person who keeps watch in the wheat field ”.A country here of our life, this era is during the enormous change, everything is in the development with rapid change.（004km.cn）In a sense, this is and really a bit alike in U.S.A.of the fifties.The society is progressing constantly, people's concept is changing too, a lot of people begin to be vast and hazy, downhearted, they get to forget one's own ideal, do not have the first enthusiasm, begin to yearn for being mediocre.We are a group of children living in new era, it is puzzled and worried to be already been used to naturally , but we should concentrate spirit and are certain about the front of we , our way , we should whether one have lofty ideals ambitious people.If Halton does not have his pure ideal, then he will degenerate through to the end , it is his ideal that lets him live.The ideal is the people' s beacon light, it is leading people to move towards future, move towards the light.Our life has just begun, even if life makes us some of this generation perplexed with knowing which way to go, but everything is just temporary, does not know the past , we needed most now, it is our ideal.Yes, it is hopeful to have lofty ideals , will just tomorrow hope, will be more beautiful tomorrow!

麥田里的守望者英文讀后感

（三）The catcher in the Rye is a typical novel which reflects the confusion and rebel of the 1950s in America history.From year 1945-1955, the American society seemed to be blissful on the surface while the fear of uncertainty caused by the growing communist challenge was affecting the culture of society.People became paranoiac and youngsters of the time became rebel or even violent resulting from the lost of aim and belief.Holton, the main character of this novel, is portrayed by the author as a typical teenager of the time.Born in a wealthy middle class family, Holton was supposed to live a good life.However, he expelled from school four times, not dare to go home, wandering alone in York city one day and two nights, living in small inn, going to nightclubs, being alcoholism.He wanted to escape from the real world because he feel depressed, confused, filled with all sorts of unrealistic fantasies.This novel can be defined as both the tragedy of Holton's and the author Salinger, who is a young people of that generation.In 1950, the Korean War started, which was an extension of the Cold War which strengthened the hostilities and conflicts between America and the Soviet Union.It definitely leaded to the panic of normal people because they were uncertain about the result of the competition between the superpowers.Teenagers were emotionally confused of the changing society, doubting their life and their future.Salinger has also written other novels such as Nine Stories, a collection of short stories even more depressed than The catcher in the Rye, which at least have expressed some hope at the end of the novel.Actually, characters like Holton become popular at that time, not in literature only.In the film Rebel Without a Cause describe a very similar situation, the tendency of rebel and violence among youngsters in American culture at that time.In the early 1950s, the accumulation of emotions and conflicts were bedding the transform a few years later, which had significant influence on American culture of that period.