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“The Heart of a Broken Story” is a work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger published in the September 1941 issue of Esquire . [1] [2] [3] Plot. The third-person narrator begins the story, involving a romantic encounter between its youthful protagonists, Justin Horgenschlag and Shirley Lester.
A humorous essay by J.D. Salinger on the challenges of writing fiction, especially boy-meets-girl stories. He reveals his failure to write a Collier's story and his frustration with the genre.
“The Heart of a Broken Story” is a short story written by J.D. Salinger, the author of the famous novel “The Catcher in the Rye.” The story is about a young man named Vincent Caulfield who is struggling to come to terms with the death of his brother, Seymour.
A 1941 article by J. D. Salinger on how to write a boy-meets-girl story. The article is available only to subscribers of Esquire Classic, the official archive of Esquire magazine.
Esquire. The Heart of a Broken Story (September 1, 1941) XVI 131-133. This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise (October 1, 1945) XXIV, October 1945 54-56, 147-149. Previous Fiction: Form & Experience. Next Story: The Fiction of the Forties.
A rare romantic (though focused heavily on physical attractiveness) short story from Salinger. A printer’s assistant falls for a moderately younger stenographer student. He tries to talk her up on a commute but she’s as cold to his benign small talk as winter.
1 gen 2001 · The Heart of a Broken Story follows a writer who describes a couple, two characters, that he has created that are on a bus at the same time. He creates many ideas to bring them together but in the end says he can find no realistic way to do so.
