The Laughing Man
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The Laughing Man is a short story by J.D. Salinger that follows a youth baseball team whose enigmatic coach captivates them with a darkly evolving adventure tale about a disfigured outlaw hero.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| audience | adult readers ⓘ |
| author |
J. D. Salinger
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ⓘ
Jerome David Salinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacter |
The Chief
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Laughing Man (fictional outlaw within the story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationType | short story collection ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Mary Hudson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Chief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsFictionalCharacter | The Laughing Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| embeddedStory | adventure tale about a disfigured outlaw hero ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization | Comanche Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| hasConflictType | internal emotional conflict ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
baseball
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masking and disfigurement ⓘ urban childhood ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | adult reflecting on childhood ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of J. D. Salinger’s notable short stories ⓘ |
| hasTargetPublication | literary magazine ⓘ |
| includedIn | Nine Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharactersAgeGroup | boys around nine years old ⓘ |
| mainSetting |
Manhattan
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ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrationType | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | story-within-a-story ⓘ |
| narrator | unnamed adult narrator ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | youth baseball coach ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine publication ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Little, Brown and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| structure | frame narrative ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood and memory
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hero worship ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ romantic disillusionment ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| tone |
melancholic
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nostalgic ⓘ |
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