Down_At_The_Dinghy

Down At The Dinghy Down at the Dinghy In my opinion, “Down at the Dinghy” was by far J.D. Salinger’s best short story included in the novel, Nine Stories. This story is about a Jewish family from New York. They are on vacation at a nice, quaint, little lake. The tale evolves around a mother and her son. The son always attempts to run away and the mother simply cannot comprehend why he does such a thing. The relationship between the two is very, very weak. Until one day when the son is on his father’s boat, the mother approaches him. He is fascinated by the fact that her key chain holds ten keys, far more than his father. She first pretends to throw them into the lake, and then gives them to him. He takes them, and then throws them into the lake. They walk back together and live happily ever after. At first, this short story confused mother, two, story, very, son, lake, between, work, until, through, small, short, relationship, really, out, opinion, one, just, first, far, emerges, dinghy, day, best, always, about, york, weak, wasn’t, walk, vacation, understand, tried, together, thus