John Wenke in J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991) [9] Salinger repeatedly refers to Collier’s as a provender of romantic pabulum. The narrator, commenting on the antics of his own ...
By reducing the complexities of the past to pabulum, they can proclaim that this story, their story, is the “true story” and that the solutions they proffer are the only rational ones. In contrast, an ...