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Description edit
Two long short stories first published in the "New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour: an Introduction" are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of the author himself. Both are stream of consciousness narratives,... read more
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Characters edit
- Buddy Glass: Narrator, writer, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself
- Seymour Glass: the eldest Glass brother
- Seymour Glass: One of the most complicated Salinger characters who, ironically, gets the least dialogue and "screen time" of all the Glass Family.
- Muriel Fedder: Elopes with Seymour Glass.
- Bessie Glass: Irish mother of the Glass family.
- Franny Glass: Youngest of the Glass family.
- Waker Glass: A monk.
- Miss Overman: Add a description of this character.
- Les Glass: Jewish father of Glass family.
Quotes edit
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“Her mouth was open. Absorbed, worried. The identification with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tragedy complete.”
Seymour Glass (diary) -
“She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten.”
Seymour Glass (diary) -
“Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
Seymour Glass (diary) -
“A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true.”
Seymour Glass (diary)
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest brother, Seymour.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1963. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- J. D. Salinger (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1963
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 248
Publisher: Little, Brown
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1963
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 248
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ4.S165 Rai5 PS3537.A426
- Dewey: 813.54
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