D.B.,一个死去的兄长--《麦田里的守望者》深层文本分析

《麦田里的守望者》中的叙述者兼主角人物霍尔顿用D．B．而不是像对其他人物那样用具体的名字来指称他的兄长，这有其特别的含义。作为人物叙述语言的特质之一的“old”出现于差不多所有的人物的名字前面，包括部分物体名称。其在不同人名前出现的频率也印证了霍尔顿对自己兄长的不寻常的态度，从中我们看到了表面文本与深层文本之间的互动关系。

D.B.,A Dead Brother --Analysis on the Deep Text in The Catcher in the Rye

The protagonist and narrator, Holder Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, addresses his elder brother with the initialized name D.B., which bears unique meanings."Old", as one of the narrator's narrative idiosyncrasies, occurs before almost everyone's names, including some of the names of the objects. The different frequency of the appearances of "old" before different names betrays Holden's unique attitude towards his elder brother, from which we see the interaction between surface text and deep text.