What does the catcher in the rye mean?

The catcher in the rye translates from Chinese into a good girl. What does the catcher in the rye mean?

The meaning in the book is that after material prosperity, you need spiritual support. Wheat field means that after harvest, the material is there, but what about the spirit? In a mixed society, it needs the support of spiritual civilization to stay away from the secular, protect one's spiritual home, save one's life and save one's soul. Today's China is a vivid example. Things are getting richer, but people's hearts are not ancient. Individuals, even countries,

People are making quick money by irresponsible people, the society is impetuous, food additives, waste oil, people are busy making money every day, struggling in the besieged city of reinforced concrete, and have no spiritual pursuit.

The only pursuit is to make money, so the spirit is gone and many people are morally bankrupt. It is difficult for a kind-hearted person to keep the pure land of his mind in this society and stick to his position, which will make him incompatible with this society.

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In 1950s, the United States just won World War II and became a political, economic and military power. During this period, "new york" was the representative of American materialistic society. It symbolizes the most "fake" everything. People's spiritual life is a wasteland, and no one cares about other people's feelings.

Mai's story spans a small time, but it is critical of social reality. Alienation is a major problem in modern society, a major challenge faced by human beings in modern society and an important concept of modern philosophy.

In modern industrial civilization and post-industrial civilization, technology squeezes people's primitive living space, improves people's sensory freedom coefficient, but reduces people's spiritual freedom coefficient. People lost themselves, annihilated themselves, and fell into "inhuman" alienation, while society also fell into materialized alienation.

The core dimension of alienation is the value dimension, and the classical philosophical proposition that man is the purpose and man is the measure of value has been challenged. Morality, as a measure to consider the relationship between people, is related to the internal structure and mechanism of ultimate value in teleology of human studies, and should also become an important operational dimension of alienation.

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