The Catcher in the Rye can be listed on the top of the world classic literature and won laurels of literary virtuoso for Salinger.In this article the author reexamines this novel from the perspective of eco-criticism and explores into the spiritual ecology reflected in it.
The rapid development of science and technology brought about fundamental doubts about the traditional values and ethics which inevitably led to a spiritual crisis.Salinger had realized that with the deepening of the industrialization and mechanization in the capitalist society,the rationality and the materialistic civilization that highly advocated by westerners have come to an extreme.Salinger turned to the east culture and hoped to seek for a way to save the west from the spiritual crisis.
