Three Stories Comparisons

In the first three stories of Salinger's Nine Stories, I have seen a couple reoccurring themes. First off, war. Though it doesn't make a major appearance in all three stories, it is mentioned at least once throughout all of them. In "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour's depression and strange pedophilia is most likely caused by his depression from World War II. In "Uncle Wiggly," Eloise's ex-lover Walt died from a bomb explosion in the war in Japan. Finally in "Just before the War with the Eskimos," Ginnie's sister's fiance fought in the Navy. Another major theme in the stories is depression. We see it in almost all the characters, except maybe Sybil. Big things like Seymour's suicide but also little things like smoking a cigarette show us depression in each of the characters. Speaking of cigarettes, those have made a pretty big appearance as well. I could argue that it was the 1940's, and everyone smoked back then, but it may also represent their depression. Finally, another connection I can make between the stories is pedophilia. We see this heavily in Bananafish in Seymour's relationship with Sybil, but we also see it in Uncle Wiggly with the symbol of the bed and as well in Eskimos with Eric's strange dialogue to Ginnie and forcing her to eat a half of a sandwich. All in all, these stories feel very similar to Catcher in the Rye, and I wonder if all of Salinger's works have the same kind of tone as these two books.