The Boy in the People Shooting Hat
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| The Boy in the People Shooting Hat | |
|---|---|
| Status | Unpublished |
| Original publication source | The New Yorker |
| Original publication date | 1948 |
| Salinger.org rating | |
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The Boy in the People Shooting Hat is an early telling of chapters 3 through 7 of The Catcher in the Rye. Holden is called "Bobby" here, and he fights with Stradlater over "June Gallagher". It was submitted to The New Yorker but rejected as "pretty shocking".
Sources
- The Unpublished Stories of JD SalingerDead Caulfields. Retrieved on September 12, 2006.
