Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

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"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" is a short story by J.D. Salinger that explores themes of infidelity, insecurity, and self-deception through a late-night phone call between two men.

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instanceOf short story
author J. D. Salinger
centralEvent late-night phone call between two men
collectionAuthor J. D. Salinger
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPublicationYear 1951
firstPublishedIn The New Yorker
focusesOn emotional insecurity
marital infidelity
self-deceptive rationalization
genre literary fiction
short story
hasDialogueBetween Lee and his colleague
includedIn Nine Stories
language English
literaryPeriod postwar American literature
mainCharacter Joan’s husband
Lee
narrativeForm dialogue-driven narrative
originalPublisher The New Yorker
partOfBibliographyOf J. D. Salinger
primarySetting New York City apartment
primaryTime late night
style minimalist dialogue
realist
theme infidelity
insecurity
self-deception
tone ambiguous
intimate

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Nine Stories hasStory Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
Glass family saga includesWork Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes