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| 1949 short stories | |
| american short stories | |
| short stories by j. d. salinger | |
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PLOT SUMMARY It features the first daughter of the Glass Family , Beatrice "Boo Boo" Glass. The story opens with the two house servants, Mrs. Snell and Sandra, discussing the peculiarities of Boo Boo's young son Lionel. The reader finds he has a penchant for running away. When Boo Boo returns she chats with the servants for a while and then goes down to the pier. She finds Lionel in a Dinghy preparing to cast off. Boo Boo pretends to be admiral of the imaginary ship, in order to win Lionel over and discover why he is trying to run away. He resists, even going so far as to throw his uncle Seymour's old goggles into the lake. Lionel tells Boo Boo that Sandra called his father a "big sloppy Kike ". And while he doesn't know what this ethnic slur means, defining it as a Kite when asked the meaning of the word from his mother, he picks up on its derogatory nature. Boo Boo attempts to comfort him. At the end of the story, they race across the beach toward home. CHARACTERS
ALLUSIONS When Lionel throws Seymour's goggles into the lake, it is reminiscent of A Perfect Day For Bananafish , another Glass story, where Seymour takes a short swim in the ocean with a little girl. RELEASE DETAILS
RELATED WORKS Other Glass Family stories include:
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