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The Laughing Man" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in The New Yorker on March 19, 1949; and also in Salinger's short story collection Nine Stories. It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth.
- J. D. Salinger
- 1949
Dec 5, 2010 · “The Laughing Man” is told by a nine-year-old living in New York City in 1928. He is a member of a Comanche Club troop. The narrator tells the story of his Scout leader, “The Chief,” a young law student at New York University. The Chief is physically unattractive, but the troop seems to hold him in high regard.
In The Laughing Man by J.D. Salinger we have the theme of innocence, escape, change and coming of age. Taken from his Nine Stories collection the story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed narrator, who is looking back at a period of his life when he was nine years old.
Along with a crew of faithful compatriots, the Laughing Man moves between China and Paris, outwitting his nemeses, Detective Dufarge and Mlle. Dufarge (Dufarge's daughter), and committing crimes with a fair-minded flair that earns him widespread admiration.
The Chief, a young law student of 22 or 23, was adored by the children. He amused them with a grim serial story called "The Laughing Man." The Chief's girl, Mary Hudson, joined them a number...
Dec 5, 2010 · “The Laughing Man” is told by a nine-year-old living in New York City in 1928. He is a member of a Comanche Club troop. The narrator tells the story of his Scout leader, “The Chief,” a young law student at New York University.
The only son of a wealthy missionary couple, the Laughing Man was kidnapped in infancy by Chinese bandits. When the wealthy missionary couple refused (from a religious conviction) to pay the ransom for their son, the bandits, signally piqued, placed the little fellow's head in a carpenter's vise and gave the appropriate lever several turns to ...
