I have always liked Salinger's style of writing. It can be said that he is my favorite American writer besides Hemingway. Since the blue summer of high school, I have accidentally picked up the book "The Catcher in the Rye" from the book stand. After that, Salinger has permanently become an indispensable spiritual existence for my character shaping, so much so that many friends say that I feel that my way of expression is also very Holden Caulfield.
Of course, everyone has their own Holden Caulfield, which is Salinger himself. One thing I agree with Salinger is that this novel can never be made into a movie, because it can play Huo Only Salinger himself, the rebellious teenager who is a head taller than the ordinary person, wears a trench coat and a peaked cap all day in Dun Caulfield.
On Christmas five years ago, in the bookstore next to the New York Public Library, I searched for the most important novel of the 20th century in the United States full of bookcases. With the help of the female shop assistant, I finally found this book on a cabinet. The original English version, but I didn’t buy it because I didn’t like the red cover, but that cover was the version finally adopted by Salinger. At that time, I wanted a book with a wheat field background, especially the one with a capped cap. The kind that is enclosed.
However, although it is said that the novel cannot be made into a movie, it is not said that Salinger himself cannot be made into a biographical film. While depicting how to create this best-selling novel, it can also give a glimpse of the amazing life of the author, and in the hearts of all of us Isn't Holden Caulfield, who I want to see, a true epitome and portrayal of Salinger's life?
The Salinger in the movie did many things that American youths were obligated to do at that time. He went to college, served as a soldier and even landed in Normandy, drinking, dating, working and getting married, but he also did a lot of things that seemed crazy to others. His actions, whether it is to continue to shape Holden in the trenches with manuscripts, or to live in seclusion in New Hampshire after becoming famous, but all these have also achieved him and his status in the literary world, just like his lines in the movie: "In my opinion, the unquestionable truth is that famous artists and poets have created great works of art, but as human beings, they have gorgeous mistakes, that is, their personality flaws or extreme selves. It is definitely not suitable for marriage, or even something slightly normal."
This is the half-life rebellious and legendary Salinger, and naturally Holden Caulfield in the hearts of countless American teenagers.
At that time, I was also a teenager and wrote at the end of my first essay in high school: "I would like to be a catcher in the wheat field, watching the wheat field of the human spirit."
"Anyway, I'm always imagining a bunch of kids playing in a big field of wheat... My duty is to keep watch there... I just want to be a catcher in the rye..."-Holton
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