摘要
美国作家杰罗姆•戴维•塞林格的长篇小说《麦田里的守望者》被称为美国20世纪文学的“现代经典”。而与此同时代的《九故事》也是短篇小说集中的经典著作。
本文对《九故事》进行解读，针对青少年迷茫这个主题来进行略论，旨在阐明塞林格描写的主人公在成长过程中经历了迷茫与挫折之后并没有向社会妥协，而是通过对自然、对他人、对人生的思考，探析着生存的意义。青少年处在青春期这一人生重要的转折阶段，他们承受着精神上的痛苦，同时又得不到同伴的理解，加上无成人的呵护和指导。在这种情况之下，青少年的精神世界很容易变得空虚、孤独、焦虑。《九故事》相关于其他小说精彩的地方在这里。塞林格不单单描述了青少年空虚焦虑的精神危机，还描述了他们所做的抗争和思考，以及之后看到世界上美好的一面之后开始对生活有了重新的认识，摆脱了沉重的压抑的情感，使自己的灵魂得到了救赎。《九故事》的主人公都很好的体现了青少年对成长的渴望，对美好世界的追寻，而在承受了精神压力之后出现了迷茫，英语毕业论文，不知所错，甚至堕落的情况。但是在感受到世界的美好，能更加全面的认识这个社会之后使自己的灵魂得到了救赎，完成了从少年向成人的转变。
《九故事》中描写的矛盾心理不仅反映了美国五十年代青少年成长的特点，也代表了不同时代、不同国度青少年的共性问题。相关于《麦田里的守望者》，《九故事》更加关注于，对我们当代的青年学生更有教育意义，学会排遣心中的焦虑与困惑，在社会化过程中顺利完成个人价值的定位和实现。
关键词：塞林格，英语论文，迷茫，救赎，青少年
Abstract
Jerome David Salinger’s famous novel The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a “modern classic” in post-war American literature. Nine Stories is also a famous work of Salinger.
The thesis attempts to analyse adolescent crisis in Nine Stories. This writer managed to prove that the main character makes a great effort to explore the meaning of life by deeply thinking about the relationship between the world and humans instead of compromising with society after undergoing the adolescent crisis. Adolescence is a crucial period in human development, during which the young go through various changes to prepare themselves for adulthood. They suffer mental crisis, while no one understands them, neither no one guides them. So, they represses innermost desires to the unconscious region of the mind. Lacking understanding among the peers and the absence of guidance and warmth from the elder people, they feel profoundly frustrated, lonesome, anxious. Different from other “Initiation Story”, Nine Stories describes not only the adolescent anxiety of spiritual crisis, but also their struggles and their understand to life. In Nine Stories, the characters feels anxious at the first place. Then they find love and hope in life and have a full understanding to life. Love and affection provoke his reconsideration of the world, release him from suffering. Characters in Nine Stories long for growing up and a wish for a more humane world. After they get over their crisis, they have a deeper understanding of the society and themselves. Finally, they complete the change from teenager to adults.
The conflicts represent American adolescents’ psychological nature during the 1950s, and such case can be found in literatures of all countries and generations. Nine Stories, different from The Catcher in the Rye focus on how to go through crisis, which is more meaningful to current students. Finally, they encounter frustration and vexation,divert continuous anxiety and psychic wildness, and establish values, beliefs and ideas, as well as explanations as to how to negotiate one’s world.
Key words:Salinger, adolescent crisis, teenager, redemption |
