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Plot summary. An unnamed narrator recounts his experiences as a nine-year-old member of the Comanche Club in New York City in 1928. The leader of the club, “The Chief”, is a young law student at New York University who is described as lacking in physical attractiveness but appears beautiful to the narrator.
Fiction. The Laughing Man. By J. D. Salinger. March 11, 1949. The New Yorker, March 19, 1949 P. 27. Childhood reminiscences. When the writer was nine (in New York City) he belonged to the...
The Laughing Man: An Overview. The Laughing Man is a short story written by J.D. Salinger, first published in The New Yorker in 1949. The story is narrated by a young boy who is a member of a group called the Comanches, which is led by a man known as the Chief.
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.
5 de dic. de 2010 · Summary: “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.
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.
More than about a nine year-old’s camp experiences, or a young man’s troubled relationship, or a deformed criminal hopscotching around the globe, “The Laughing Man” is about what it means to tell a story, how the teller and his tale are ultimately inextricable from one another, and how subjectivity is a constant presence.
