Last Day of the Last Furlough

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"Last Day of the Last Furlough" is a short story written by American writer J. D. Salinger in 1944 and published in the July 15th issue of Saturday Evening Post. It covers the last days of furlough for Babe Gladwaller before he is shipped off to World War II.

Babe spends most of the time with his little sister, Mattie, until his fellow soldier Vincent Caulfield comes over to spend the evening with them before departing in the morning. In this story, Vincent announces his brother Holden has been reported Missing in Action. Babe and Mattie's relationship mirrors the future relationship between Holden and Phoebe in The Catcher in the Rye.

References

J. D. Salinger: Seventy-Eight Bananas. William Wiegand. Chicago Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1958), pp. 3-19

J. D. Salinger

Novel

The Catcher in the Rye

Short story collections

Short stories

"Blue Melody"
"Both Parties Concerned"
"A Boy in France"
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
"Down at the Dinghy"
"Elaine"
"For Esmé—with Love and Squalor"
"A Girl I Knew"
"Go See Eddie"
"The Hang of It"
"Hapworth 16, 1924"
"The Heart of a Broken Story"
"I'm Crazy"
"The Inverted Forest"
"Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
"Last Day of the Last Furlough"
"The Laughing Man"
"The Long Debut of Lois Taggett"
"Once a Week Won't Kill You"
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
"Personal Notes of an Infantryman"
"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes"
"Slight Rebellion off Madison"
"Soft-Boiled Sergeant"
"The Stranger"
"Teddy"
"This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise"
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
"The Varioni Brothers"
"The Young Folks"
"A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All"

Unpublished	"Birthday Boy" "The Boy in the People Shooting Hat" "The Children's Echelon" "I Went to School with Adolf Hitler" "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans" "Lunch for Three" "The Magic Foxhole" "Monologue for a Watery Highball" "Mrs. Hincher" "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" "Paula" "Two Lonely Men"

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