He also continued to submit stories to "The New Yorker", but with little success; it rejected all of his submissions from 1944 to 1946, a group of 15 poems in 1945 alone.
Salinger je dodal, da obdeluje igro o Holdenu Caulfieldu, protagonistu zgodbe "Slight Rebellion off Madison", in da upa, da bo glavno vlogo odigral kar sam.