[Bananafish] Nine stories

[Kenneth]

Wenke's an ass. Of course there's a pliable interconnection between the nine 
stories, they were written by the same author in a relatively short space of 
time. The nine stories show a transformation of philosophy as Salinger moved 
from despondancy to hope.
Now, forget "Blue Melody." Imagine that Salinger had included "A Girl I 
Knew" in Nine Stories. By any account, chronologically or by publicarion 
date, it would have been the first story in the book and everyone would have 
interpreted "Bananafish" in light of "A Girl I Knew."
Salinger was correct to leave that story out of the collection. It was 
either "A Girl I Knew" or "Bananafish."

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> 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.
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> Ez
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