Phoebe: Holden's younger sister, innocent and lovely, likes and relies on Holden very much, and likes to be a little adult. Finally, he changed holden's mind.
The Catcher in the Rye is the only novel written by American writer Jerome David Salinger. Anger and anxiety are the two major themes of this novel. The hero's experience and thoughts aroused strong repercussions among teenagers and were warmly welcomed by readers, especially middle school students.
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Creation background
In 1950s, the United States just won World War II and became a political, economic and military power. During this period, "new york" was the representative of American materialistic society. It symbolizes the most "fake" everything. People's spiritual life is a wasteland, and no one cares about other people's feelings.
Theme of the work
The society represented by Mai is an alienated society and a society with moral degeneration. In the overall depravity within this social scope, individual depravity may contain deep anti-depravity and moral information under the surface depravity, which may have positive connotation.
Holden exposed and resisted the moral degeneration in the alienated society with his own degeneration. Some kind of morality can be seen in his depravity, and what he shows is the morality in depraved behavior, a kind of depraved morality.
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