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“The Heart of a Broken Story” is a work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger published in the September 1941 issue of Esquire . [1] [2] [3] Plot. The third-person narrator begins the story, involving a romantic encounter between its youthful protagonists, Justin Horgenschlag and Shirley Lester.
The Heart of a Broken Story. This one’s a lot of fun. It’s a first-person account of what the author thinks is wrong with writing fiction, but it’s neither grumpy nor sarcastic. It’s sincere. That was the beginning of the story I started to write for Collier’s. I was going to write a lovely tender boy-meets-girl story.
Love and loss play a significant role in J.D. Salinger’s “The Heart of a Broken Story.”. The story revolves around the protagonist, Vincent Caulfield, who is struggling to come to terms with the death of his brother, D.B. Caulfield.
July 30, 2022. A rare romantic (though focused heavily on physical attractiveness) short story from Salinger. A printer’s assistant falls for a moderately younger stenographer student. He tries to talk her up on a commute but she’s as cold to his benign small talk as winter.
The Heart of a Broken Story. The only real difficulty in concocting a boy-meets-girl story is that, somehow, he must. September 1 1941 J. D. SALINGER
A summary of J.D. Salinger's "The Heart of a Broken Story," exploring themes of heartbreak and loss.
In “Heart of a Broken Story” Salinger takes the measure of wishful fantasy as the basis for popular entertainment and —at a remarkably early point in his career —registers his uneasiness with formula fiction. This story constitutes his earliest attack on phony art.” —John Wenke in J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991) [9]
