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Down at the Dinghy" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in Harper's in April 1949, and included in the compilation, Nine Stories.
‘Down at the Dinghy’: plot summary. One warm October, two servants, Sandra and Mrs Snell, are discussing a four-year-old boy named Lionel, who is the son of the family for whom they work. Sandra is worried that Lionel is going to tell his mother about something he overheard Sandra say: some disparaging anti-Semitic remarks about Lionel’s ...
Down at the Dinghy (English) It was a little after four o'clock on an Indian Summer afternoon. Some fifteen or twenty times since noon, Sandra, the maid, had come away from the lake-front window in the kitchen with her mouth set tight. This time as she came away, she absently untied and re-tied her apron strings, taking up what little slack her ...
Down at the Dinghy; Status: Published: Original Publication Date: April 1, 1949: Salinger.org Rating: 2.8: Characters. Seymour Glass; Boo Boo Glass; Sources. Harper’s CXCVIII (April 1, 1949) 87-91; Nine Stories Post navigation. Previous Post Previous The Laughing Man. Next Post Next For Esmé – With Love and Squalor.
Down at the Dinghy, a short story by J.D. Salinger, was first published in The New Yorker in 1949. Despite being over 70 years old, the story still holds relevance today. The themes of isolation, family dynamics, and the search for identity are universal and timeless.
25 de jul. de 2018 · ABSTRACT: This article aims at analyzing the modern short story “Down at the dinghy” (1949), by J.D. Salinger, focusing on the issues of innocence, race, class and religion. This is a short story that presents two characters of the Glass family — relatives that are presented in eight different stories by Salinger.
Summary. Two household servants, Sandra and Mrs. Snell, sit over tea, waiting for the evening bus that will take Mrs. Snell, who lives locally, back home. The reader knows they are career servants because Mrs. Snell is wearing a cast-off designer-label hat and carrying an equally impressive but well-worn bag.
