"The Catcher in the Rye" is not very long, only more than 100,000 words.

Pearl Race initially approached the novel with the seriousness of looking at a master's work.

It is a first-person novel with flashbacks, in which the protagonist is a bad student in the eyes of a teacher, expelled from school, and then wandering around society.

The beginning is not bad, the characters are portrayed very fullly, especially the psychological description is particularly good, and it is really a master-level work.

But it didn't take long for her to waver.

This protagonist has nothing to do, and he hasn't encountered any major incidents, it's all trivial things, is this just foreshadowing?

She watched it for a few more days with that in this mood.

There is still no major incident, and the protagonist's situation has not changed, that is, the protagonist meets all kinds of people in New York and sees all kinds of society.

This protagonist has no ideals, he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't have much courage, his personality can't be said to be decadent, he just seems to be featureless, and the only characteristic is probably a mouth full of swearing.

You're writing to play, aren't you?

Pearl Sai wanted to say this, but Lin Zixuan was a master writer after all, and maybe there was some deep meaning.

According to the traditional way of writing, the protagonist can participate in some important events at this time, so as to change his personality and achieve great things.

For example, family changes, social problems, or being put in the police station.

But Lin Zixuan just asked the protagonist to go home and meet his sister, saying that he wanted to become a "catcher in the wheat field".

In other words, the protagonist still has ideals, but this ideal is strange.

Well, that's a change, and Pearl continues to look forward to it.

The protagonist then wanders around and spends the night at the teacher's house, suspecting that the teacher is gay, and runs out in the middle of the night and spends the night in the train waiting room.

Then, the protagonist doesn't want to go home and prepares to go far away and go west.

Seeing this, Pearl Sai was excited, and the front was really all foreshadowing, going to the western United States, where there was chaos, it was the best stage for heroes to grow.

But she was disappointed again.

The protagonist gave up his plan because of his sister, and accompanied his sister to the playground to play for a while, and then went home.

What about the growth history of heroes, the legendary stories that are good, where are epic stories like "Gone with the Wind"?

You can't just end it like this!

Lin Zixuan decisively gave the end of the novel, Holden returned home and entered the nursing home, he didn't seem to have changed anything, but maybe something has changed, who can say clearly.

Pearl Race fell into deep thought, this novel was very different from the novels she had read before.

It's like writing and playing casually.,There's no main line.,The only thing that runs through the whole story is the psychological activity of the protagonist.,It's almost like a child sleepwalking in a big city.。

If you want to say that the critique of society is not very similar, it is mainly written around things related to Holden.

By the way, she suddenly realized Holden's state, which seemed a little sick.

Otherwise, how can you lose interest in everything and just want to be a catcher in the wheat field, this kind of thinking is too negative, it can also be said that it is too simple and innocent.

When this simple ideal collides with a complex society, only the ideal can be shattered.

Holden felt happy watching his sister play with the Trojan horse and wanted to take care of the running child, which showed that he had the innocence of a child in his heart, but he grew up day by day, and countless troubles came overwhelmingly.

Conflict with school, conflict with roommate, conflict with girlfriend......

He felt that no one could understand him, he was very lonely, he didn't know how to solve it, and he was very anxious in his heart, so he thought about running away from home and putting all his worries behind.

However, when he really came to society, he saw all kinds of ugliness.

He tried to integrate into society and live like an adult, but he was invisibly isolated from society.

He wasn't ready to accept the real world, which suddenly appeared to hit him hard.

He went home to meet his sister, who became the only person he confided in, the last point of comfort in the world.

So, when his sister wanted to go to the west with him, he had to give up his plan and return home for the sake of his sister.

In the final analysis, he is not a real rebellious young man, just a little guy whose ideals are crushed by reality and refuses to grow up, each of us will have such a stage.

It's not so much that Holden is pathological, but that society as a whole is pathological.

Pearl Race discovered that this story is not only happening in the United States, but also in China.

China is in an era of great change, and countless young people have the dream of changing the country, but the reality is cruel.

Under the dark rule of the Beiyang government, many young people felt at a loss and did not know what to do, and some young people fell into depravity.

Holden can go home with his sister, and these Chinese youths don't know where to go, which is a spiritual disillusionment.

Pearl Race wishfully believes that this is a Chinese novel written by Lin Zixuan, but the setting is in the United States.

Lin Zixuan used this story to express his dissatisfaction with Chinese society and his hope that Chinese youth would find their spiritual home.

To be honest, she didn't think the novel would succeed even after reading it.

First of all, the storyline is too bland, it's all trivial little things, there are no ups and downs, except for the wonderful psychological description, I really can't find anything too outstanding.

If Lin Zixuan just practiced the stream-of-consciousness writing method with this novel, then he would have succeeded.

Secondly, there are a lot of swear words in the novel, and there are many places that involve sensitive issues such as homosexuality, which may cause controversy.

Originally, there were several places in the story that involved religion, but at the strong request of the Christian Pearl Sai, Lin Zixuan made changes.

He didn't write this novel to find trouble, just to brush up on his presence in the American literary world, and he was not afraid of controversy, only truly valuable novels would be controversial.

But if you offend Christianity because of this, you will lose more than you gain.

Lin Zixuan continued to discuss with Pearl Race in the process of writing, he didn't know much about Western culture, and he didn't know much about those places that needed to be avoided, so it was definitely not possible to copy the original text.

Moreover, this novel is not a popular novel like "Gone with the Wind", and it requires a high level of writing for translation.

That's why he came to Pearl Race to work with.

It is not easy to find a foreigner who is proficient in Chinese in China, Pearl Race can write in Chinese, and the writing is not bad.

She later even translated "Water Margin".

There are many foreign translations of "Water Margin", such as "A Story Happened at the Water's Edge" and "One Hundred and Five Men and Three Women".

Among them, the most accurate translation is the version of Pearl Sai, called "All Brothers in the Four Seas".

Lin Zixuan felt that the foreign novels he wrote in the future could be translated by Pearl Sai, and in the end, no matter which of the two of them won the Nobel Prize in Literature first, it was a good story in the world literary circle.

As for Pearl Sai's worries about bad sales, he doesn't care.

"The Catcher in the Rye" is not a popular novel like "Gone with the Wind", it is impossible to sell well from the beginning, that is not scientific.

Literary novels often need time to precipitate, which cannot be rushed, compared to sales, Lin Zixuan is more concerned about the opinions of literary critics.

Besides, if he wants to write a best-selling novel, there are many genres to choose from.