塞林格在当代美国文坛上名噪一时,因为他写了那部描写中学生的思想和性格的中篇《麦田里的守望者》。小说所刻划的中学生霍尔顿的形象,为一代美国青年所喜爱。除此之外,塞林格还写了《九故事》等一批中短篇小说,同样深受读者喜欢。塞林箔在他的中短篇小说里,刻划了一些性格怪异的人物,如格莱丝家族的年轻一代,还有泰迪(小说《泰迪》中的人物)。他们的心理、思想和行为,都不同程度地令 Salinger was famous in the contemporary American literary world because he wrote the mid-chapter “The Catcher in the Rye” that portrayed the thoughts and personality of middle school students. The image of Holden, a high school student delineated by the novel, is loved by a generation of American youth. In addition, Salinger also wrote “Nine Stories” and a number of short stories, also loved by readers. In his mid-and-short novels, Ringling sculpts some of the weird characters, such as the younger generation of the Grays family, and Teddy (the character in the novel Teddy). Their minds, thoughts and behaviors are ordered to varying degrees