friends of Ernie

Musycian@aol.com
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:04:15 -0400 (EDT)

I found Soldier's Home deeply moving. I'm not quite sure if it's one of his
better known short stories but the way that Krebbs tells his mother he doesn't
love her and then as she starts to cry, gives in and says it even though he
doesn't mean it is very reminiscent to me of the inner conflict in Salinger
characters dealing with their contempt for oblivious people yet their
desperate need for companionship.