[Bananafish] Nine stories

[Esme Four]

A quick visit to John Wenke's book on Salinger's short
fiction (i'm in the library anyway...)  makes the
issue muddier because Wenke says that Nine Stories
does not "impose the fiction of completed wholeness"
but he does see some "interconnectedness" between the
stories. I think he's suggesting there's a middle
ground where stories play with each other but don't
work like a novel. Also, Wenke says that Salinger
chose the stories "he wished to stand on" and omitted
stories ("Blue Melody," "A Girl I Knew") that
chronologically could have been included.

Ez

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