Original artwork, not a still
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she reached puberty.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Salinger describes a girl who lets a ringing phone go on without so much as a pause. The exaggeration says she's so used to constant calls that it barely registers. It's a wry portrait of someone unbothered by demand.
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