Things are getting a little too heavy, so I'm going to change the subject. Has anyone read Salinger's short story, "The Stranger?" It appeared in Collier's magazine in 1945. Anyway, in the story Vincent (AKA D.B.) Caulfield has died in WWII. Yet, in Catcher, Holden says his brother D.B. has already served in the war and is now a writer in Hollywood. I'm only assuming Vincent and D.B. are the same person. Any insight?