J.D.塞林格的《麦田里的守望者》是美国成长小说的典范之作。小说以圣经故事“浪子回头”为原型。在继承这一西方的成长小说原型的故事情节基础上,对其中的叙述视角以及人物形象进行了反抗式的戏仿。通过对“浪子回头”原型故事的继承和改造,《麦田里的守望者》生动再现了二战后美国青年一代所处的混乱荒诞的精神状态。 J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” is a model of American growth novels. The novel to the Bible story “Prodigal Back ” as the prototype. On the basis of inheriting the story of the prototype of the growth novel in the West, the narrative perspective and characters in the novel are imitated in a resistance manner. Through the inheritance and transformation of the Prototype of the Prodigal Son, Catcher in the Rye vividly reproduces the chaotic and absurd state of mind of the U.S. young generation after World War II.