Nine Stories Summary
J. D. Salinger

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Seymour Glass

Seymour Glass is a young soldier who has emerged from World War II deeply troubled. He has been hospitalized as a result of his mental state, but has now been released. He acts strangely and inappropriately. His unusual actions are only hinted at in the story, but he has apparently wrecked his father-in-law's car by deliberately driving it into a tree, given his wife a book of poetry in German expecting her...

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J. D. Salinger Biographies (7)

J. D. Salinger

6,743 words, approx. 23 pages

Best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), J. D. Salinger (born 1919) is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of Ameri... Read more

J. D. Salinger

5,038 words, approx. 17 pages

J. D. Salinger remains well known for a single novel: The Catcher in the Rye, which was hailed as "brilliant" upon its publication in 1951. While several of the short short stories Salinger also wrote... Read more

J. D. Salinger

6,356 words, approx. 22 pages

Biography EssayThe entire body of writing by which Jerome David Salinger wishes to be known is contained in four small books—one novel and thirteen short stories. All of these were published in ... Read more

J. D. Salinger

5,007 words, approx. 17 pages

J. D. Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, the second child and only son of a Jewish father, a prosperous importer of hams and cheeses and a Scotch-Irish mother. Very little is known about Salinger. ... Read more

J(erome) D(avid) Salinger

5,697 words, approx. 19 pages

The entire body of writing by which Jerome David Salinger wishes to be known is contained in four small books--one novel and thirteen short stories. All of these were published in the eleven-and-a-h... Read more

J(erome) D(avid) Salinger

2,992 words, approx. 10 pages

A few writers are so enveloped in their reputations that their work is virtually impossible to read without being distracted by their fame and their relation to the public. No one else has ever been k... Read more

J(erome) D(avid) Salinger

8,006 words, approx. 27 pages

Confronting another in an apparently unending series of collected essays about J. D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye (1951), a British reviewer once asked with some asperity why nearly every Ameri... Read more

Essays & Analysis (5)

Critical Essay by James Finn Cotter

6,709 words, approx. 23 pages

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Critical Essay by Ruth Prigozy

8,901 words, approx. 30 pages

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Nine Stories: The Escape From Reality

2,007 words, approx. 7 pages

Nine Stories: The Escape from Reality A child is very similar to a delicate flower. That flower must be nurtured and taken care properly, or else it will be damaged for life. When a child is at ... Read more

Superficiality in "Nine Stories" by J.D. Salinger

928 words, approx. 4 pages

In J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories collection, he teaches the reader valuable life lessons by using characters to show what can go wrong in one's life. An example of one of these themes is demonstrated b... Read more

Innocence in Salinger

860 words, approx. 3 pages

Born in 1919, J. D. Salinger is recognized as one of the most popular and influential authors of modern American literature to emerge after World War II. Raised in Manhattan in an affluent family, S... Read more

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