History
The story was rejected by the The New Yorker after at least one editor determined the piece was both "too dark and too weird." At the time, although Salinger had published in the magazine previously, the piece was still not considered for publication beyond the first round of meetings among editors. Thus, the piece was submitted to the World Review and accepted. Salinger considered the story a significant piece in his canon, and thus later decided to include it in his short story collection.
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