Hotel room - “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
J.D Salinger elucidates, “THERE WERE ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She used the time, though.” The lines are copiously engaged due to the advertising men’s autocratic propensities. The stretched queues impose a lengthy waiting interval for the other callers who want to actuate calls. The advertising men are inopportunely prevailing on the lines, a scenario which obliges the other callers to defer their calls for an extended period.
Jimmy - “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”
Ramona’s portrayal of Jimmy takes account of: “green eyes and black hair…no freckles…A sword.” The complimentary sketch renders Jimmy a striking and fascinating boy. Ramona pays passionate consideration to Jimmy’s looks; otherwise, it would have been problematic to explicate his form.
Tennis - “Just Before the War with the Eskimos”
J.D Salinger notes, “FIVE STRAIGHT SATURDAY MORNINGS, Ginnie Mannox had played tennis at the East Side Courts with Selena Graff, a classmate at Miss Basehoar's. Ginnie openly considered Selena the biggest drip at Miss Basehoar's--a school ostensibly abounding with fair-sized drips--but at the same time she had never known anyone like Selena for bringing fresh cans of tennis balls.” This is the introductory passage of “Just Before the War with the Eskimos.” The imagery depicts two adolescents at the tennis yard toiling to refine their adroitness in tennis. The ‘five straight Saturday mornings’ spawns the imagery of unswerving drills at the tennis courtyard.
