People
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
— J.D. Salinger · The Catcher in the Rye
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Salinger's narrator offers guarded advice against forming attachments, warning that sharing personal stories about people creates longing once they're gone. The line reflects a defensive stance toward intimacy, treating disclosure itself as the source of later loss rather than connection as something worth the risk.
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