杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格的经典小说《麦田里的守望者》叙述了主人公霍尔顿·考尔德被学校开除后在纽约街头游荡的经历。本文论述了霍尔顿在成长过程中所经历的疏离和痛苦。本文从新批评的角度，通过对小说的叙述方式，结构设置，故事背景和象征手法的分析，集中探讨了主人公霍尔顿在被学校开除后到纽约曼哈顿游荡过程中错综复杂的内心感受。以上四个因素使小说形成一个有机的整体，突出了文章的主题。“,”The novel The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger narrates the protagonist Holden Caulfield’s expe-riences in New York City. This paper argues that Holden is ex-periencing alienation and painfulness during his tour. It focuses on Holden’s complex feelings through analysis of the narrative way, the structure, the setting and symbols of this novel from the perspective of New Criticism. This paper illuminates that this novel is an organic unity of interrelated and interconnected parts, each part helping to support the central idea: Holden’s alienated and painful tour of growing up.