J. D. Salinger's For Esme With Love And Squalor

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I chose J.D. Salinger's For Esme With Love and Squalor as my short story. The story took place in World War II, initially in Britain and later in the European Theatre after VE Day. If I had to live in this world that is depicted in the story and of which I know a bit from reading about in history classes, I would be very frightened. In the beginning, the main character/narrator was training for war in Britain. If I were a soldier, my day would be a constant reminder of what I was preparing to do. As a civilian, I would have been concerned about attacks from the enemy and would be living under food rationing and blackouts where your windows and anything that could create light had to be covered in case of nighttime air attacks from the Germans.