The Laughing Man の笑い, または, あるストーリーテラーの終焉
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For the narrator (who is the same age as the author, J.D. Salinger) of "The Laughing Man, " the crucial experience at the age of nine still has pregnant meaning. He recalls belonging to a group "Comanches" which was organized by John Gedsudski, a law student at N.Y.U. Besides playing with games, Gedsudski entertains the children with installments of a fantastic story about the deformed and masked hero, the Laughing Man, who is a projection of the story-teller himself. Both Gedsudski and the Laughing Man receive great admiration from the boys of the group. In the end of the story, however, Gedsudski kills the Laughing Man after stripping away his mask and abruptly ends his story. This means the end of his being an admirable leader and excellent story-teller. He strips off his mask as well as the Laughing Man's and exposes the real truth. The author Salinger began his career as an entertaining story-teller of The New Yorker. After the great success of The Catcher in the Rye he settled in Cornish, New Hampshire and gradually involved himself in the inward truth of the Glass family. In this sense, "The Laughing Man" suggests the turnig point of Salinger's fiction.
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