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It is a tale of adolescent alienation and redemption in a post-World War II setting. It focuses primarily on fifteen-year-old Ginnie Mannox's meeting with her classmate Selena Graff's older brother, Franklin.
A story about Franklin, a young man who did not fight in WWII and was rejected by society and by his lover. The story explores the themes of rejection, alienation, connection and change through the characters of Franklin, Ginnie and Eric.
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“Just Before the War with the Eskimos” appeared in the June 5, 1948 issue of The New Yorker and was reprinted in Salinger’s 1953 collection Nine Stories.
Ginnie Maddox: A young woman of 15. She has been playing tennis with Selena for at least five weeks. Selena Graff: Another young woman, whose mother has pneumonia. She is also 15 and has a brother named Franklin. Franklin Graff: Selena’s Brother, Franklin is 24 years old and has not gone to the war due to his being classified 4-F for a bad heart. H...
Ginnie Maddox and her classmate Selena have been playing tennis for several weeks. Though Selena always brings fresh cans of tennis balls, she never contributes to the cab fare. Ginnie becomes annoyed and insists that Selena reimburse her the cost of the cab fares she has paid. Selena tries to explain to Ginnie that her mother is ill and she could ...
Wenke, John P. J.D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Print. Wenke classifies “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” in the same category as “The Laughing Man” and “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period,” as demonstrative of “the alienation of a post-adolescent youth not yet initiated into manhood.” (31) He thus focu...
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Fiction. Just Before The War With The Eskimos. By J. D. Salinger. May 28, 1948. The New Yorker, June 5, 1948 P. 37. Fifteen year old Ginnie Mannox spends a short time in the living room of her...
Just Before the War with the Eskimos (English) Five straight Saturday mornings, Ginnie Mannox had played tennis at the East Side Courts with Selena Graff, a classmate at Miss Basehoar's. Ginnie openly considered Selena the biggest drip at Miss Basehoar's--a school ostensibly abounding with fair-sized drips--but at the same time she had never ...
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor".
