J. D. Salinger의 The Catcher in the Rye- ‘순수’를 지켜내는 ‘경계인’ = A Marginal Man Protecting 'Innocence' in The Catcher of the Rye by J. D. Salinger

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this novel, the first person protagonist Holden Caulfield appears to be a hypersensitive adolescent boy in terms of sensibility speaking in his own strange idioms and slangs. He is always driven crazy by “phoniness,” in the people around. He cannot tolerate insincerity, injustice, snobbery, hypocrisy, deception and absurdity he finds in other people's activities and mannerisms.
After becoming a drop-out from school, he wanders around New York city by himself looking for some company and trying many things for the first time in his life. He acts like one of the adults he has seen or has depicted for himself, but he is too confused to find where he should be and his rightful place in the society. He was becoming disintegrated by roaming on the borderline as a marginal man between a pure adolescent boy and a sophisticated adult man. He encounters diverse people here and there but they contribute only to aggravating his judgement that people are all hypocrites or morons.
What he admires is 'innocence' or 'what remains the way it is'. He resists people or things changing over time, and cannot reconcile himself to them. And he confesses to his sister that his wish is to become a catcher in the rye, protecting children from falling over the cliff at the edge of the rye field.
Over time he grows sick and tired of acting like someone else but receiving no healthy feedback, so he gains some unexpected immense relief while watching the way his sister feels exhilarated as she keeps going around and around riding on a carrousel at Central park. He returns home to get psychiatric treatment somewhere, reflecting on these experiences by telling others.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가는 글 : 좌절한 청소년의 잠행기
• Ⅱ. ‘경계인’으로서의 고독
• Ⅲ. 호밀밭의 파수꾼 : 순수에 대한 헌신
• Ⅳ. 나오는 글
• Works Cited