Stephen’s Reviews > Nine Stories > Status Update

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes is a writer's exercise in misdirection.

impressionist character sketches

Part of my lack of enjoyments is the aimlessness of the story. Salingers characters all suffer from fallen character arches

War on the Eskimos - OK character sketches
Laughing Man - Hero Dies?

Most of these stories involve folks living Post WWII, No so quiet lives of desperation

I realized that one of the ways in which J.D. Salingers writing fails to satistyf my is that his characters are NOT folks I enjoy spending time with.

The first story... the guy was nice until the end.