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[[求助与讨论]] Some Critics On 《The Cathcer In The Rye》

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CRITICS                                   
               THE CRITICS          (SCATCRIT)   
-                                      
ON JANE                                 
What he especially liked about Jane was that in checkers she kept     
her kings in the back row. This has intrigued the critics, but what it   
seems to represent is a holding back of one's aggressive powers and an   
unwillingness to enter the competitive game and use them against other   
people; this is one of Holden's cherished values, and in his case, his   
bane as well.                                
        -Gerald Rosen, Zen in the Art of J. D. Salinger, 1977   
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HOLDEN AND HUCK FINN                           
This novel's exciting resemblances to The Adventures of         
Huckleberry Finn have been justly noted by a number of critics- the     
comic irony, the colloquial language, the picaresque structure and the   
theme of anti-phoniness and it is not inconceivable that someday      
Holden Caulfield may be as well known an American boy as Huck Finn.     
For a reader goes through much the same pattern of relishing both      
boys: first it is the release provided by their rebellion from      
society, then the inspiration of their honesty against sham, and      
then the sympathetic awareness of their melancholy roles.         
               -Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph Blotner,   
                 The Fiction of J. D. Salinger, 1964   
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SALINGER'S LOVE OF CHILDREN                        
Holden can only find genuine love in children, who have not        
learned the deadening rituals of pretense.                 
                -Dan Wakefield, in Henry A. Grunwald,   
           Salinger, A Critical and Personal Portrait, 1962   
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In one of his few published comments, Salinger has said of The      
Catcher: \"I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and      
shocked, or shocked-saddened, over some of the chapters in The Catcher   
in the Rye. Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best   
friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my   
book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.\"              
                 -David Leitch, in Henry A. Grunwald,   
           Salinger, A Critical and Personal Portrait, 1962   
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THE NEED TO LOVE                             
The response of these outsiders (Holden and Phoebe, for instance) to   
the dull or angry world about them is not simply one of withdrawal: it   
often takes the form of a strange quixotic gesture. The gesture, one   
feels for sure, is the bright metaphor of Salinger's sensibility,      
the center from which meaning derives and ultimately the reach of      
his commitment to past innocence and current guilt.... There is      
often something prodigal and spontaneous about it, something        
humorous or whimsical, something that disrupts our habits of gray      
acquiescence and revives our faith in the willingness of the human     
spirit. But above all, it gives as only a religious gesture can.... In   
another age, Cervantes endowed Don Quixote with the capacity to      
perform it and so did Twain and Fitzgerald endow their best         
creations... the young man who insists on giving half a chicken      
sandwich to a stranger.                           
                 -Ihab Hassan, in Henry A. Grunwald,   
           Salinger, A Critical and Personal Portrait, 1962   
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HOLDEN AND SOCIETY                           
In the epilogue to the novel Holden suggests the possibility of      
re-entering society when he says, \"I sort of miss everybody I told you   
about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even     
miss that goddam Maurice.\" Holden misses even the phonies of the world   
because his experience has taught him something about the necessity of   
loving, and here Salinger sounds what is to become his major and      
most complex theme.                             
                          -David D. Galloway,   
              The Absurd Hero in American Fiction, 1966   
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A LYRIC MONOLOGUE                             
The Catcher in the Rye, despite its brilliance of observation and     
the virtuosity with which Salinger keeps Holden Caulfield's         
monologue going for the length of a novel, is primarily concerned      
neither with the working out of a plot nor the development of a      
character. It is a lyric monologue in which the complex feelings of an   
essentially static character are revealed. For all Salinger's skill,   
The Catcher in the Rye has a claustrophobic and, at the same time,     
random quality.                              
                -Arthur Mizener, in Henry A. Grunwald,   
           Salinger, A Critical and Personal Portrait, 1962   
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A PORTRAIT OF OURSELVES                          
Rather than wishing quarterly significance or \"greatness\" on him     
[Salinger], we can be content to take him for what he is: a         
beautifully deft, professional performer who gives us a chance to      
catch quick, half-amused, half-frightened glimpses of ourselves and     
our contemporaries, as he confronts us with his brilliant mirror      
images.                                   
              -David L. Stevenson, In Henry A. Grunwald,   
           Salinger, A Critical and Personal Portrait, 1962   
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SALINGER, THE OUTSIDER                          
The only thing that Salinger does not do for this audience is to     
meet with them. Holden Caulfield said in The Catcher in the Rye that   
\"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done      
reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of   
yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like     
it.\" It is well for him that all the people in this country who now     
regard J. D. Salinger as a \"terrific friend\" do not call him up and     
reach him.                                 
        -Alfred Kazin, \"J. D. Salinger: Everybody's Favorite,\"   
                  The Atlantic Monthly, August 1961
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