A cutting short story, Salinger's Raise High the Roofbeams... uses the set piece of a wedding at which the groom doesn't turn up to once again consider the phonies whose supposed intelligence only reveals their small-mindedness and need for familiarity. Certainly, a useful epilogue to Catcher in the Rye, and containing a character who is the happiest and most steadfast precisely because — as opposed to being in spite of — his muteness and deafness.
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