'for esme' musings

1. wonder how it would have read if the narrator had
NOT been married before or after the war.

2. did 'time' magazine attempt to track down a 'real'
esme, as they did with sybil? anyone know?

3. margaret salinger has a revealing story in her
book about jds going to great britain (in late 60s?)
to meet a pen pal of circa 20. a potential esme who
didn't marry, he might have thought? (she wasn't
pretty enough on first sight, according to margaret
and the meeting was a bust.)

4. the most interesting part of joyce maynard's book
was the moment she read's 'for esme' and the reader
recalls the oversized male watch maynard was wearing
in the photo on the magazine cover which jsd saw (and
prompted him to write?)
5. it's interesting that the wife's letters during the
war (which are termed 'stale' at one point in the
story) didn't help our narrator. again, it's one of
'salinger's children' who saves the day.

kim

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