KINGS IN THE BACK ROW

INTRODUCTORY NOTE (Dec 31, 2004):

   The noted literary critic Herman C. Applebaum, author of the highly-acclaimed book Kings and Things in the Back Row, recently tried to reconstruct the famous scene from CR (chapter 11) in which Holden remembers playing checkers with Jane Gallagher, who for some reason kept all her kings in the back row. According to Applebaum, "the symbolic significance is, in fact, somewhat overwhelming".

   Internal evidence suggests that the red square onto which Jane's tear "plopped", as Holden recalls, may have been the one in the upper right corner.

   Note also the whisky glass in the background, which was possibly used by the "booze hound".  

 

 
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