Well for starters, the one thing I mainly remember talking about during class discussions relating to De Daumier Smith's Blue Period was how Salinger was pointing out the flaws directly within society by mocking them and jeering through the main character's hypocritical characteristics ( an example would be like this sense of false nationalism in france).  Well, throughout the story of Teddy, the main course of the novel was the discussion of Teddy's point of view on religion and beliefs.  My main dilema is, was Salinger being genuinely sincere when discussing Teddy's point off view or was he subliminally mocking Buddhism as a whole?  Also, why would nine stories end with this novel and why would they final quote of the short story and novel as a whole, "He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream clearly coming from a small, female child.  It was highly acoustical, as though it was reverberating within four tiled walls" (198).   (small book)