《麦田里的守望者》中体现出强烈的悲剧意识。它的悲剧意识体现在对战争恐惧的感悟与理解、死亡的抉择、孤独的守望与无声的反抗之中。它通过小说主人公霍尔顿离开学校,在纽约闯荡三天中的精神痛苦和心理矛盾表达出了塞林格个人的悲观意识和他自身处境的困惑与迷惘,并对小说主人公的执迷与心理困境充满了悲悯与同情。 Catcher in the Rye reflects a strong sense of tragedy. Its awareness of tragedy is reflected in the perception and understanding of fear of war, the choice of death, the lonely watch and the silent protest. It left the school through the novel protagonist Holden, mental pain and psychological contradictions in three days in New York battles to express Salinger personal pessimism and his own confusion and confusion, and the obsession and psychology of the protagonist of the novel Dilemma full of compassion and sympathy.