so much of salinger’s writing is preoccupied with cynicism vs love. everyone knows holden’s rants about phoniness, but salinger's writing is just as much about having love and empathy for humanity, inauthentic, shallow and fake as we are. many people miss the other half of the dichotomy. I love all these stories very deeply, and I think blue period, the laughing man, and green my eyes are ridiculously under-discussed.