De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: J. D. Salinger
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1939
- Setting: New York City and Montreal, Canada
- Principal Characters: Robert (Bobby) Agadganian, Jr., De Daumier-Smith, Yoshoto
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Art or artists, Students or student life, Buddhism
- Locales: New York, NY, Montreal, Canada
The Story
The essential plot is a memoir of events recalled by the narrator in the year 1952. The narrator indicates in the initial paragraph that he wants to dedicate the following autobiographical account “to the memory” of his “ribald” stepfather, the late “Bobby” Agadganian, who married his mother after her divorce from his father in 1920.
After the Wall Street crash, Agadganian ceased being a stockbroker and took up a new occupation as agent-appraiser for a group of independent American art galleries. This necessitated, in 1930, a family move to Paris....
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