Dear Landsmen, Without oversimplifying the current military situation in the middle east i'd like to wager a few comments regarding the second world war and it's effect on our subject, mr. jd salinger. One need look no furthur then for esme with love and squalor, to detect the great signifigance that the war played upon the young writers life. Sergent X has a clear case of what they reffered to as Shell shock if i'm not mistaken. His breakdown is caused by the tragic experience of war and his inability to re-assimilaite himself into a post or non war life. Is the war to salinger what allie was to holden? Sincerely, of draft age