Re: just after the war with the eskimos
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:39:13 -0600
i missed the "less-talked-about stories" post, but my vote goes to For Esme,
even though i know it has been discussed before. it's such a good story i
wish we talked about nothing else. okay okay, not really. sheesh--matt
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:14:21 -0500 (EST) Bethany.M.Edstrom@Dartmouth.EDU
(Bethany M. Edstrom) wrote:
>
>I'll vote for "DeDaumier Smith's Blue Period" as my favorite Salinger short
>story. I remember rereading that one on a very hot June day when I was
>working
>at the Robert Frost Museum in New Hampshire and had NO business for long
>stretches of time. I was living in the wonderful but tiny town of Franconia,
>NH
>and renting a very small, hot, uncomfortable room in a house with people I
>did
>not get along with at all. I remember reading that story over and over until
>I
>practically memorized it, especially the part where deDaumier-Smith (initials
>JDS, after all) imagines going up to his employer/landlord and ranting and
>raving to him about how his mother is dead, he has to live with her CHARMING
>husban (I loved that line), this that and the other thing, and THERE ARE NO
>CHAIRS IN YOUR SON'S ROOM! But, personal memories aside, it is a great story
>in
>so many respects. The characterization of Jean dD-S, who is nineteen, I
>think,
>is as good as or better than that of Holden.
>So there's my agreement with Steven on the "less-talked-about" stories
>issue--
>Bethany