Nine_Stories

Nine Stories Nine Stories Mysterious, confusing, thought provoking and inter-locking are a few words that explain J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. The author throughout this book uses children to show the innocence and happiness of youth. The carefree world of children and the unhappy worlds of his adult characters coincide until something from the past changes the characters forever. In Laughing Man, Salinger portrays the young boy and narrator as a happy go lucky child playing sports, enjoying the company of his friends and most of all getting lost in the fantastical story telling of his bus driver. Although Laughing Man had deformities and evil enemies, the boy could block out those parts of the story because Laughing Man would prevail. When Laughing Man was killed, part of the boy’s childhood was taken away, too. Stories come to an end and innocence to comes to an end. Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut is an interesting story with the main character, Eloise living a very unhappy life. Eloise’s past was in her eyes a blissful one. Walt was the man she truly loved. Walt made her laugh. Eloise felt childish and carefree with Walt. When he was killed, story, seymour, adult, stories, eloise, walt, man, young, unhappy, life, just, joanie, innocence, end, boo, teddy, sister, lee, girl, father, children, character, because, arthur, about, think, sergeant, seems, replaced, ramona, part, mature, main, lionel, laughing