Talk:For Esmé—with Love and Squalor

message: for esme with love and sqalor is a story about the problems of post war generation.they seek peace life in love;however,their ancesters sought it in war. Zabihollah Eslami — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.191.102.49 (talk) 10:06, 27 February 2006‎ (UTC)
Was Charles autistic? -WalterJid — Preceding unsigned comment added by WalterJid (talk • contribs) 02:11, 1 September 2006‎ (UTC)
:I'm not sure, and I don't see any evidence for or against it in the text, though it is possible. Thunk 06:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story 

message: There are those two "[citation needed]" subscripts regarding the interpretation of Sergeant X possibly being Seymour Glass or Buddy Glass. These are valid interpretations that anyone can make. Unless we actually have them, do we really need to cite sources from a famous literature critic? My point is, we will most likely never know if these analyses are correct, but they are certainly valid, and we shouldn't need someone "with a name" to verify it. Let's not mimic politics.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slythfox (talk • contribs) 05:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Textual references needed for literature analysis? 

message: Does the Sergeant have to be either? He receives a letter from an *older* brother in Albany - Buddy did live in upstate New York (c.f. 'Franny and Zooey') but was Seymour's younger brother. Also the implication of crassness in the letter detracts from the idea that it is Buddy, and Buddy did not seem to have any children in his 1951 letter in 'Zooey'. The fact that Buddy was not married subtracts from his being the narrator (who is married, c.1949-50, in 'For Esme') either.81.98.43.135 16:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...It is more widely accepted that Sergeant X and Seymour Glass are the same person" 

message: I just noticed tonight that Salinger himself had fought in the war, and Sergeant X seems similar to him. They both were occupying Germany after the war itself, and both arrested minor female Nazi officials but didn't really hate them, and Salinger himself was said to have been a bit shellshocked by the war, especially when he helped liberate a concentration camp. I just thought, tonight, that this story might be a telling of his own story. (With a few embellishments and differences, of course.) What thoughts do you people have on this?
Thunk 06:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  X is a personification of Salinger's own experience with the war? 

message: He Sargent X certainly did not endure it too well.  This synopsis seems pretty lacking.  I think this story is more about the need for meaningful human connections and the difficulty of maintaining these connections in the chaos of war.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulrhoades (talk • contribs) 20:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endure the squalor of war? 

message: Shouldn't it be "Esmée," instead of "Esmé"?Lestrade (talk) 15:36, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We can only repeat what Salinger himself wrote, and that is how he spelled it. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 15:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  French female name 

message: I don't recall ever seeing this title with an em dash, and the pictured cover shows it with a hyphen-sized one. Is there consensus for this move? Rothorpe (talk) 14:05, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there's a consensus for either style. It seems that more modern reprints are using an em dash instead of a hyphen. It makes sense from a grammatical point of view anyways. See this result in Google Books for example: the title still uses a hyphen, but the titles in the reviews use em dashes. - M0rphzone (talk) 04:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It makes sense from a grammatical point of view? How? Rothorpe (talk) 18:34, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I wondered about this move, as well, and cannot see the justification for it. ---The Old JacobiteThe '45 18:56, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undiscussed move