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postwar young generation who have found in Holden an approximation of their own experience. The case of Holden represented a social type of adolescents thrown upon themselves in a corrupt and decadent world. The Catcher in the narrative skills have influenced many later writers especially in the realistic way: The firstperson narrating way and the psychology realism, in the language use: Children argons and slang together with the rhetoric and in symbolism: giving some examples of the descriptions and images. Different youths, parents and critics mented on it from different views. There were two main entirely different opinions. Some people extolled this book, and they deemed we could deepen the understanding of youths. If youths could read this novel, they could strengthen their understanding of life and keep high vigilance of the wicked reality themselves. While other people criticized it severely. They considered that the protagonist often spoke the obscene words such as“my ass”“horse manure”,didn39。 meanwhile some libraries treated this novel as a banned book. However with time going by, its place in the American literature is gradually stable and it was paid more attention by the critic circle.