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

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

J.D. Salinger

Ebook | Pages: 18 pages

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

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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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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.

Easily one of the greatest short stories I've ever read. When I can spend more time thinking about the text than actually reading it, I know I've found something special.

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

This was actually recommended to me by Gabriel, and he was right -- this was the best short story I've ever read. This story forces you to read from the historical lens. Salinger compares his experiences in WWII and his post-traumatic stress to Seymour Glass' post-traumatic stress after coming back from the war. This book has many different themes as well. The bananafish, for instance, symbolized Seymour's emotions being built up and then eventually going away when he committed suicide.

"I see you're looking at my feet," he said to her when the car was in motion."I beg your pardon?" said the woman."I said I see you're looking at my feet.""I beg your pardon. I happened to be looking at the floor," said the woman, and faced the doors of the car." "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" contrasts the world of children, imaginative, curious, pure, and innocent with the world of adults materialistic, selfish, shallow. As you can see, the story glorifies children and to some degree condemns

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,

I want to be clear -- just because I loved this one doesn't mean I understood it. There are MUCH better reviews that are able to deconstruct this story and explain the themes and characters in ways that I'm simply incapable of doing. Or even understanding. But what I CAN say is that Seymour struck a nerve in me that I can't really articulate. I absolutely hated The Catcher in the Rye -- although I keep thinking maybe I should read it yet again and see if I've changed my mind about it -- so this