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6) “For Esme— With Love and Squalor” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My favorite so far!!!!

" The Laughing Man" (New Yorker 19.03.1949) ...such wonderful sense of humor with Salinger's strongest point: ...showing the reader and not telling him! Can you imagine what the NY’er editor was thinking back in 1941:
“…he started submitting short stories to the magazine.
The magazine initially rejected seven of his submissions that year.
But JD…never have up!

5) “Down at the Dinghy” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4) “The Laughing Man”- DNF

This one ended up being too out-dated, couldn’t finish it. Maybe I’ll circle back, but I just want to keep going for now.

Hilarious so far

"Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (2/9) Well, there is depth in the story that I did not realise. Shock/twist ending, hùh?? Still trying to digest it. The dialogue with its trite retorts "Now you know", "Goddam if I know", "Nobody YOU know", "Big deal"...vernacular dialogue makes for easy reading. But the best is Salinger's descriptions of gestures of the characters when proper etiquette silences words.