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“The Heart of a Broken Story” is a work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger published in the September 1941 issue of Esquire . [1] [2] [3] Plot. The third-person narrator begins the story, involving a romantic encounter between its youthful protagonists, Justin Horgenschlag and Shirley Lester.
A humorous essay by J.D. Salinger on the challenges of writing fiction, especially boy-meets-girl stories. He reveals his failure to write a Collier's story and his frustration with the genre.
J.D. Salinger’s “The Heart of a Broken Story” is a poignant and powerful exploration of heartbreak and the human condition. This short story is a masterful work of art that captures the essence of the pain and sorrow that comes with losing someone you love.
A rare romantic (though focused heavily on physical attractiveness) short story from Salinger. A printer’s assistant falls for a moderately younger stenographer student. He tries to talk her up on a commute but she’s as cold to his benign small talk as winter. Bizarre fantasizing on how to achieve this: faint at her feet and rip her sock so ...
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A 1941 article by J. D. Salinger on how to write a boy-meets-girl story. The article is available only to subscribers of Esquire Classic, the official archive of Esquire magazine.
“The Heart of a Broken Story” marks a turning point in Salinger’s approach to writing for commercial literary markets in the 1940s. Biographer Kenneth Slawnski explains:
This summary provides the key details about the document in 3 sentences: The document is a short story by J.D. Salinger about a man named Justin Horgenschlag who falls in love at first sight with a woman named Shirley Lester after seeing her on the bus one morning.
