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Linger's literary and religious intentions from Bananafish to Teddy so that the reader sees the unity and individual details with new appreciation uestions at the end of each chapter help focus on these details and make this book an excellent teaching text The chapter on The Laughing Man for example demonstrates how Salinger's seemingly enigmatic hints illuminate his characters and plot in a masterful use of the short story form A most helpful well organized and insightful study James Finn Cotter Professor of English Mount Saint Mary College Brad McDuffie‘s text is a valuable addition to any classroom and will help any Salinger readers increase their pleasure and understanding of NINE STORIES Whether young adult readers are inspired to read by the author they loved in THE CATCHER IN THE RYE or attend classes being taught to study Salinger’s shorter masterpieces Teaching Salinger's NINE STORIES will guide all readers into the complexities wisdom and beauty they may experience with Salinger’s shorter prose McDuffie follows up nicely on the widely shared understanding that Salinger’s “second masterpiece” is his Nine Stories McDuffie’s scholarship produces an honest and helpful reader’s guide—I recommend it also because I share the.
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Teaching Salingers NINE STORIESText’s critical respect for J D Salinger as well as sharing McDuffie’s belief that Salinger was one of the greatest writers of his time Wiliam Hochman co editor of LETTERS TO J D SALINGER coauthor of CRITICAL COMPANION TO J D SALINGER A LITERARY REFERENCE TO HIS LIFE AND WORK CONTENTS Part I Teaching Salinger’s NINE STORIESPreface NINE STORIES as a Short Story Cycle A Perfect Day for Bananafish Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut Just Before the War with the Eskimos The Laughing Man Down at the Dinghy For Esmé With Love and Sualor Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes De Daumier Smith’s Blue Period Teddy Part II Nine EssaysThe View from Shore Seymour Glass in “The Waste Land” Joseph A Thompson University of Mississippi Uncle Wiggily’s Haunted House Olivia Carr Edenfield Georgia Southern University From York to Lexington A Pilgrimage through Allusions in “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” Sarah Marshall Nyack College Salinger Criticism and “The Laughing Man” A Case of Arrested Development Richard Allan Davison University of Delaware “The old ship is steady again” Empathy and The Divine Comedy in “Down at the Dinghy” Michael Renganeschi SUNY New Paltz Esmé’s Kind of Sualor Donald Junkins University of Massachusetts Amherst..