End.

A pattern I have begun to notice in Salinger's stories is that while they bring up many unfinished points to wonder at throughout the story, the last line is generally the most curious or mysterious in the whole thing. The last line leaves you wondering, "Why did the character do that?". To serve as examples, the last line in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is, "Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple.". The last line of "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" is, "'I was a nice girl,' she pleaded, 'wasn't I?'". Finally, the last line of "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" is, "A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket.". These final lines really make you question what the story was actually about, and who the characters really are. It makes you wonder what their motives were in doing exactly what was proclaimed in the last line, and almost forces you to imagine deep into the past of the characters. This is part of what is so curious about these stories. Salinger provides some of the story, but the rest is left to be interpreted by the reader.