One member of this family, who is described as the only truly “lighthearted” son, died in the Allied Occupation of Japan when a stove exploded. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this fictional family that appears in several of the short stories in the collection Nine Stories. The siblings Franny and Zooey are the youngest members of this family.
ANSWER: Glass family
[10m] In this short story, Seymour Glass takes the young child Sybil Carpenter into the water to catch the title animal before shooting himself in his hotel room.
ANSWER: “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
[10e] “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” was written by this American author of The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: J. D. Salinger [or Jerome David Salinger]
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