The Young Folks
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The Young Folks was J. D. Salinger's first published story; published in Whit Burnett's Story magazine.
The story satirizes the selfish concerns of a pair of young adults at a party and the festering shallowness of their lives.
Burnett was the teacher of short story writing at Columbia where Salinger took his course. Salinger himself was twenty one at the time of its publication.