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Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" is a short story by J.D. Salinger, initially published in the July 14, 1951 issue of The New Yorker, and later within the larger collection of Salinger's short works, Nine Stories (April, 1953). Over the span of a few telephone conversations, the story surrounds three adult characters and the remainder of their ...
‘Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes’ is a short story by J. D. Salinger, first published in 1951. The story details a phone conversation between two men, Arthur and Lee, following a party.
Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes (English) When the phone rang, the gray-haired man asked the girl, with quite some little deference, if she would rather for any reason he didn't answer it. The girl heard him as if from a distance, and turned her face toward him, one eye--on the side of the light--closed tight, her open eye very, however ...
- The New Yorker, July 14, 1951, pages 20-24
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by J.D. Salinger. Buy Study Guide. Nine Stories Summary and Analysis of "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" The phone rings. A “gray-haired man” asks the girl he is with if she’d rather he not answer it. She is unsure, and asks him what he thinks. Resolving that it won’t make too much difference, the man picks up. His name is Lee.
Published in the print edition of the July 14, 1951, issue, with the headline “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes.”. Lee and a girl are in his apartment together. The phone rings and he...
The psychological analysis of the characters in J.D. Salinger’s “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes” reveals the complex nature of human relationships and the impact of infidelity on individuals. The protagonist, Joanie, is portrayed as a woman who is deeply affected by her husband’s affair.
241 books15.3k followers. Follow. Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents. People well know this author for his reclusive nature.
