本文运用法国思想家米歇尔·福柯权力关系理论的惩罚机制和监狱意象对小说《麦田里的守望者》的权力体现进行分析,深入挖掘权力关系的巧妙部署,揭示以主人公为代表的非法活动分子游离在“监狱式教育体系”的边缘并试图反抗社会文化的现象,揭露当时美国教育体制的弊端,从惩罚的温和方式、反抗、逃遁、非法活动方面解读小说人物不臣服的品质,赞扬了二战后美国青少年一代不畏权力魔掌摆布,反抗丑陋肮脏的社会现象的勇气。 This article uses the punishment mechanism and prison image of French thinker Michel Foucault’s power relations theory to analyze the power manifestations of “Catcher in the Rye”, digs the ingenious deployment of power relations and reveals the illegal activities represented by the protagonists The elements are free from the edge of “prison-type education system” and try to resist social and cultural phenomena, reveal the shortcomings of the American education system at that time, interpret the character of no-surrender in the novel from the mode of punishment, resistance, escaping and illegal activities, Praised the courage of the United States adolescent generation after World War II in defying the clutches of power and defeating ugly dirty social phenomena.