world, Cold War intensified and nuclear terror hanged over everyone's heart. People's spiritual lives became more and more poor and empty. Some people got sleepy; some people did not like the vulgar and false world. However, they lacked bright ideal and can not find the way out. As Marx said: "the value of the world is directly proportional to the devaluation of the human spirit world"[1]. In such a world with material abundance and spirit shortage, people live without faith and ideal. Then the people who were born in the 1950s were known as the new generation who were catabolic and lonely. Jerome David Salinger, who was called “hermitic writer”, died in his home town in New Hampshire Cornish Town in January 27, 2010 and aged 91. He lived in seclusion for more than half a century and always adhered to the belief that he loved writing, and he just wrote for himself, just for his own pleasure. Since 1965, though his pen didn’t stop working, he did not publish any influential works. This solitude "hermit" in the literary world escaped the secular life and left behind too much mystery about himself and his unpublished works. However, it was infrequent that writers were famous in the United States for only a transgressive works but Salinger was unique and so lucky. He became immortal for the works The Catcher in the Rye (1951). This short works used to be considered as a banned book, then became popular for American high school students and influenced generations of young people. Salinger was also considered as the classical writers whose works was read most widely in the United States. Perhaps since the book had too much influence in the United States, China could not be utterly ignorant about it. At that time, although China was under the rule of culture authoritarian, the government let the works The Catcher in the Rye appeared quietly in the form of internal publication. The earliest version of this works was the "beige book" translated by Shi Xianrong in 1963 and this version has been reprinted for several times. In this paper, from the perspective of overall planning, the researcher will make a brief evaluation of the whole and local symbol in the works The Catcher in the Rye in order to reveal the theme of the works and the characters’ fates.
Conclusion
This thesis is about the symbolism in the novel of Catcher in the Rye. As a basis of the whole thesis, the author analyzed the meaning and theories of Symbolism. Symbolism as an artistic theory was first put forward by Jane Moreas. He considered that Symbolism is trying to cover in the ideas with some perceptible styles. American poet and literary critic Arthur Simmons made a definition of symbol as a kind of conventional performance. Commonly, according to the different methods, we usually can divide symbol into "traditional symbol" and "personal symbol", "emotion symbol" and "philosophy symbol". Since the symbolic imag
