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A Perfect Day for Bananafish

J.D. Salinger

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Original Title:	A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Edition Language:	English

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Let's get one thing straight, Seymour Glass was not a sex offender. He never asked Sybil to look at 'his bananafish' as some ignorant reviewer posted. This is a story about desperation, about a man who was exhausted of trying to fit into a society where he was not welcomed. In the beginning, with the conversation between Muriel and her mother, the reader can sense that Seymour might be mentally or emotionally unstable. Muriel is not like Seymour at all, she's superficial and centered around materialistic things. She was on the phone with her mother, but neither of them were listening to each other. They were talking at each other and not with each other. Muriel did not acknowledge her mother's concern for her and her mother did not hear the constant reassurances that Muriel was fine. Seymour likes to spend his time alone, whether it be alone at the piano in a club or lounging at the beach. He just did not click with other adults. The only people he could make a connection to were children. This is why he was so fond of Sybil. Children were simple minded and innocent and not touched by the harsh darkness of the world. Seymour longs to regain the innocence that he had in childhood, the innocence he lost while growing up and leaving to war. He goes out to the water with Sybil. He tells her that they are looking for bananafish, some mythical creature that he probably made up when he, himself, was a child. He tells her how the bananafish gorges itself on bananas until it is so stuffed it cannot leave its burrow. Then it dies. This signifies the process of growing up. Humans are so greedy that they take anything they can. We take in experiences: tragedy, heartbreak, hate, disappointment; until we cannot take anymore. He knows that in reality they will not find the fish. However, Sybil claims she saw the bananafish. This reminded Seymour of the childhood innocence and imagination, where magic still exists and bananafish roam the sea. He then goes back to the hotel. Seymour is the bananafish. He took in all the tragedy that life had given him until he could not take it anymore. So full of contempt he could not fit into the adult world.

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Title	:	A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Author	:	J.D. Salinger
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 18 pages
Published	:	(first published 1948)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Literature. American

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I know, I know, it is in Nine Stories. But before I get to the whole collection, let me just put it out here exclusively, to show how exquisite this short piece is.

I thought that it was deep. I love the unseen commentary in this short story. There are a lot of "banana fish" in our world - meaning that there are a lot of greedy people. When I had to read the first page of this short story, I thought that Muriel was a murdered by killing her husband - the rings that were in the bathroom, her left hand stretched away, & removing the stain out of her dress vs. some in my class saw her as some sort of a harlett that was paid for her services however, that

The road leading to suicide is filled with deepest darkest despair, with a couple of stuffed dogs strewn along the curb maybe, but the final act is performed in a moment of clarity. In sun-kissed primary colours.

My senior year of high school, I got on a JD Salinger kick and read everything I could find. The Norwegian exchange student that was staying with us and I would sit out on the deck that spring, making ourselves Tom Collins's and reading Salinger. (at least I read Salinger. I don't remember what he read. Do you remember, Thor??)

This short story is written in absolutely crystal-clear prose taking the idea of show, don't tell, to an extreme I've never encountered before. As such, with its abrupt ending (as many of the stories within Nine Stories), it leaves as many questions as it does answers. A second reading reveals a few more details; by the third I've started to get a full picture. Salinger is quite possibly my favorite author for this reason: it's easy to read the story and know what happened, but upon asking,

The type of story which always comes to your mind now and then once you read it..and you thought over it again and again.It was my first J. D. Salinger read. I loved it.If you want to look at my feet, say so, said the young man. But dont be a God-damned sneak about it.