麦田里的守望者英语内容梗概

麦田里的守望者英语内容梗概

Holden, the protagonist of the book, is a middle school student born in a wealthy middle class family. He was sixteen, but a head taller than a man, and spent his days wandering around in a windbreaker and a hunting cap rather than reading. He was fed up with everything at school -- teachers, classmates, homework, ball games, etc. He was captain of the school fencing team and was expelled three times.

At the end of another semester, he was expelled from the school for failing four out of five subjects. He felt no pain at all. After a fight with a roommate, he left school late at night and returned to New York City, but he was afraid to go home. Checked into a small hotel late that night. All he saw in the hotel were riff-rills, men in women's dresses, men and women spraying each other with water and wine, making fun and self-conscious, making Holden sick and surprised. He was so bored that he went clubbing for a while. When he returned to his hotel, he was still so bored that he promis.