Seeing Holden, Zhuang Yan's first reaction was to throw him a friendly smile, and he wanted to say hello by the way, but then he remembered that Holden had no other emotions other than acting as a voiceover.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Yan smiled relievedly, and took care of himself to find an empty place to sit down, Holden has been following Zhuang Yan, Zhuang Yan sat down, and he also sat down.

Zhuang Yan looked at the tall young man in front of him with interest, this feeling was indeed strange, he had been outside for a day, and Holden was still stuck when he left.

Holden continued, saying that Pansy's Saturday dinner was actually pretty good, but he thought it might be because parents came to school on Sundays, so the old principal thought that when parents asked students "What did they eat yesterday" on Sunday, the students would tell their parents, "It was beef yesterday." ”

"What a deception!" said Holden, with some indignation.

Zhuang Yan was amused by the young man's tone, and said with a smile, "Hehe, your old principal is indeed very business-minded. ”

Holden pouted and said, "You should look at the steak, it's all dry and hard, and you can't cut it." ”

The words of the two were like a question and an answer, but Zhuang Yan knew that Holden was not answering his words at all, but was still memorizing his lines.

Although he spoke to Zhuang Yan, the two people facing each other were like people from two worlds.

Sure enough, before Zhuang Yan spoke, Holden had already started talking to himself again, and his rhythm never changed.

To be honest, the things Holden said were trivial, and not only trivial, but also somewhat casual, as if there was no main line, as if he would say whatever he wanted.

This is the characteristic of "stream of consciousness", the reader can't figure out where the main story line is, and can't figure out what the protagonist is going to do.

Of course, if this book had only one feature, it would not have passed the test of time in the United States for decades and finally became a classic of modern American literature.

Not everyone will like this book, Zhuang Yan has heard someone say that this book is completely incomprehensible and completely running accounts. But to be honest, when Zhuang Yan saw Holden behind him say that he just wanted to be a catcher in the wheat field, Zhuang Yan was moved.

What touched Zhuang Yan was the kind of teenager's pure desire to protect himself and protect others in the face of overwhelming social realities and mechanical repetitive boring work and life.

This is the pure heart of a rebellious teenager, the hardest and softest thing in the world.

So this book is definitely not a saliva account for Zhuang Yan, let alone a piece of shit.

This book is about a kind of growth, a kind of growth that all young people have. Truth be told, it's not uncommon to write about young people growing up, but Salinger's unique perspective is eye-catching.

From the perspective of a young man himself, he directly criticized the limitations of Western literature and education.

The story is actually very simple, if you want to sum it up in one sentence, it is: a maverick teenager who fails four classes and is expelled from school, spends a few days in jealousy, depression, decadence, and contradictions.

In Salinger's writing, the precocious but naïve Holden found a huge contrast between the ugliness of the real world and the "innocence" of his ideal childhood world through the experience of the past few days.

At the end of the story, Holden is sent to a psychiatric hospital to recuperate. And in the hospital recuperation, he narrates his story in the first person, and the whole novel is also written in the form of reminiscences.

From this point of view, the perspective of writing is a bit similar to the previous "Alive", of course, it is "Alive" that has not been revised by Zhuang Yan, because Zhuang Yan's own "Alive" is not a reminiscence, but a diary.

Holden's memories should have been carried out in a mental hospital, which was something in Zhuang Yan's memory, so when he thought of this at that time, Zhuang Yan was still a little surprised.

If Holden is mentally ill? Actually, he is, because he's different from everyone else, so he's called an outlier, so he's mentally ill for other more adults.

But as everyone knows, in fact, those who are different from Holden are the real outliers, and their way of life and thinking are really wrong.

They tried in vain to impose their adult ways of doing things on young people like Holden, and when they found that they couldn't succeed, they angrily cursed them as deviants.

The book became so popular in the United States, in fact, because of this, it touched a lot of young people, and that generation of American teenagers was "affectionately" called the "Beat Generation" by others.

The Beat Generation is not just a literary genre, but not long after the emergence of this so-called "Beat Generation" literary genre in the United States after World War II, that generation of young people is also known as the Beat Generation.

And these "Beat Generation" think that they just don't want to be subordinate to their elders, because they just want to live their own lives and live a different life from others.

Just because of such a simple wish, they were branded as the "Beat Generation" just because they "don't want to grow up", and of course they are very unconvinced.

So, when the book came out, the young people all took it as a guide, and they took Holden, the protagonist of the book, as their idol, and some even painted a portrait of him and pasted it on the wall, and they had to bow down to him every day.

It is also for this reason that the parents of that generation are strongly opposed to this book, hoping that the state can ban this book, because they believe that this book has brought a lot of negative and adverse effects to young people, so that the generation that is about to collapse will deviate more and more from the track, and finally collapse completely.

There are many experts who use the fact that the book is full of B-grade words like fuck as an excuse to advocate that parents collectively boycott the book and let it be completely bought into the dirt.

The end result, however, was that the so-called experts who boycotted the book at the time had disappeared, and the book had gradually become a modern literary classic.

And what they called the "Beat Generation" eventually became the backbone of all classes in the United States.

This reminds Zhuang Yan of the China of later generations, where young people in China will be divided into the post-70s, post-80s, post-90s, post-00s, and the new generation of post-10s before Zhuang Yan crossed.

Because in China, these generations are all "Beat Generation".

And Zhuang Yan, on the way to growth, is also fortunate to be called the "Beat Generation".