For Esmé with Love and Squalor

For Esmé with Love and Squalor is one of the most well known -and most loved- stories of J. D. Salinger. It is a Sergeant's retrospective on the meeting with a girl, Esme, he had before he was sent to war. The strange, but lovingly relationship to Esme helps him to endure the squalor of war. Lack of purity and innocence in the adult world, and love to the childhood itself are the concepts behind the story.

There is an idea claims that Sergeant X and Seymour Glass are the same person but it is not widely accepted.