the final installment of the story, the Chief kills off the Laughing Man, much to the Comanches’ dismay. Film adaptation Salinger was reluctant to allow his works to be adapted for film. However, he instructed the entertainment licenses department of his literary agency, Harold Ober Associates, to send his story out to producers for a potential film deal. The move was motivated by financial need, but the interested parties only expressed desire to adapt his novel The Catcher in the Rye. References in other media In season 1 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the "Laughing Man case" is a main plot line, incorporating references to stories by J. D. Salinger. In Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998), the character Alice is asked what her dream book to publish would be. She answers, a book of new J.D. Salinger stories "more in the direction of The Laughing Man, or Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters..." References Further reading Short stories by J. D. Salinger 1949 short stories Works originally published in The New Yorker Adaptations of works by Victor Hugo