Salinger again

One of the more frequently accessed posts in this blog is my reading of Salinger's "Teddy" (http://cdeemer2007.blogspot.com/2007/01/salingers-stories.html). Students are still trying to make sense of this story. My reading apparently is still a minority view. However, the central question and foundation of any interpretation remains: is there water in the pool? What is the evidence for? what against? And I say common sense and the text of the story both lead to the pool having water in it. And if the pool is full, what really happens?

clipped from www.todayinliterature.com Salinger's Holden Stories On this day in 1948, J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" was published in the New Yorker; in the same magazine, on the same day in 1953, Salinger's "Teddy" also appeared. These are the first and last selections in Nine Stories (1953), Salinger's only collection apart from various bootlegged editions of the other, forty-odd stories.