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upper-middle-class private schools as a boy, Salinger, half-Jewish, had been exposed to ethnic stereotyping by his mostly Anglo-Saxon classmates. During her conversation with Mrs. Snell, Sandra says at a certain point, referring to the little Lionel: "He's gonna have a nose just like his father". "Down at the Dinghy" is not a reckoning of these personal and historical events, but rather a "reaffirmation of the faith in human connection" based upon "union, equality and compromise…"
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Jewish father (“a big sloppy kike”). Boo Boo finds Lionel in a dinghy preparing to cast off, and refuses to allow his mother to join him. Boo Boo pretends to be admiral of the imaginary ship in order to win Lionel over and discover why he is trying to run away. He resists, even going so far as to throw his uncle
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Solidifying this association beyond any doubt, Salinger describes Lionel wearing a “Jerome the
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The story opens with the two house servants, Mrs. Mildred Snell and Sandra, discussing the homeowner's young son, Lionel. Sandra is very worried that the boy will tell his mother Boo Boo (Mrs. Tannenbaum, a 25-year-old lady), her employer, that she has made some anti-Semitic remarks about Lionel's
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Lionel tells Boo Boo that Sandra called his father a "big sloppy kike". While he doesn't know what this ethnic slur means, conflating the epithet “kike” with “kite”, he nevertheless grasps its derogatory connotation. Boo Boo, in an effort to reassure the boy and help him cope with the episode,
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The story, originally titled “Killer in the Dinghy” contains some clearly autobiographical elements. Salinger (who was called “Sonny” by his family) resembles Boo Boo
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The tale also addresses the issue of anti-Semitism in the post-war period when the facts of fascist atrocities committed against minorities, including Jews, were becoming fully understood. Salinger had personally viewed a Nazi concentration camp as a US soldier. While attending
Eastern
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Told in two distinct segments, the first involves a discussion between two house servants about their employer's little boy, who has a history of running away. The second segment explores the mother's efforts to reassure her son and help him cope with his fears.
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Uncle Webb: Referred to by Boo Boo when Lionel kicked goggles into the lake. Boo Boo told Lionel, her son, that the goggles belong to his Uncle Webb and that they once belonged to his Uncle
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succeeds in providing him insights into her own needs and the love she feels for him. At the end of the story, they race across the beach toward home, and Lionel wins.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and
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