《麦田里的守望者》以主人公霍尔顿自叙的语气讲述自己被学校开除后在纽约城游荡将近两昼夜的经历和心灵感受。它不仅生动细致地描绘了一个不安现状的中产阶级子弟的苦闷仿徨、孤独愤世的精神世界，一个青春期少年矛盾百出的心理特征，也批判了成人社会的虚伪和做作。霍尔顿是个性洛复杂而又矛盾的青少年的典型。In the novel Catcher in the Rye, the hero Holden tells what he experienced and how he thought when he was expelled out of school and wandered two nights in the city of New York. The book, in a vivid and detailed way, describes the depression, hesitation, loneliness and cynicism in his inner world, thus revealing the psychological character of contradiction of a young man in his adolescence. At the same time, it criticizes the hypocrisy of the adults. Holden is a typical young man with complex and conflicting character.