Hi, I’m finishing reading Nine Stories by Salinger and was wondering about his characters: I find all his children characters are quite adult-like while the adult characters are quite childlike. But all of them have a quality (and I say “quality” as in a characteristic, not as a judgement of quality) which I find (and this is definitely a judgement but not of quality) in equal part sweet and infuriating. Anyone cares enough to share some thoughts on my first ever Reddit post? (this is a non-judgemental quality request of attention)
I went on a major Salinger binge in my teens. At that time I found profundity in his books.
So now I’m old, and I re-read some of his books several years back. His work has not aged well for me.
There can be a rather insufferable twee-ness or too-pure-for-this-world quality in some characters that makes me wonder if Salinger was a major influence on Wes Anderson.
Royal Tennenbaums is certainly in the shadow of the Glass family.