It is revealed in the latter that he wrote at least three stories collected in Nine Stories: 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' ' Down at the Dinghy' and ' Teddy.' He also claims credit for 'Franny,' and it is suggested in Seymour that he wrote The Catcher in the Rye. Webb Gallagher 'Buddy' Glass (born 1919 ): The narrator of Zooey and protagonist in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.However, in Seymour: An Introduction his younger brother Buddy (who claims authorship of the story) suggests the depiction of Seymour in 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' more closely resembles Buddy than Seymour.

Muriel is asleep on the bed beside him at the time. In 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' he commits suicide while the couple are on a second honeymoon in Florida. He elopes with Muriel Fedder on June 4, 1942. In 1941 he attempts suicide by slitting his wrists, but fails, as described in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction. He fought in the European Theatre of World War II, and was deeply scarred by the experience.

Along with his siblings he was a regular star on the radio program It's a Wise Child. He is the author of the letter that comprises 'Hapworth 16, 1924' and is the main character in ' A Perfect Day for Bananafish.' Seymour was a spiritual savant and brilliant intellectual, and became a professor at Columbia at 20.

Seymour Glass (February 1917 – Ma): The eldest, Seymour is featured in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction and Franny and Zooey.

They are the parents of the seven children: He is not mentioned often in the stories, but is criticized by Seymour in ' Hapworth 16, 1924.' Bessie, the matriarch, is Irish, and is characterized as consistently worried about the fact that her children are talented and yet largely unable to assimilate into society. Les is Australian (mentioned in 'Hapworth 16, 1924') and Jewish, and is in the entertainment business.

Les and Bessie Glass (née Gallagher): Retired vaudeville performers.

The Glass family, from eldest to youngest: They appear in the short story collections Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction and Franny and Zooey. All but one of the Glass family stories were first published in The New Yorker. The Glass family is a fictional family appearing in several of J. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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