Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish‚” Seymour Glass is a war veteran who is dealing with PTSD. His experiences in the war changed him forever‚ and he could no longer fit in with the consumerist America. Seymour Glass tells the story of the bananafish to a young girl named Sybil Carpenter. He says that “[bananafish] swim into a hole where there’s a lot of bananas. They’re very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in‚ they behave like pigs. Why‚ I’ve known some bananafish to swim
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A Perfect Day For Bananafish By J.D. Salinger A Perfect Day For Bananafish was written in 1948 by the American writer Jerome David Salinger. This was just three years after the ending of World War II‚ where Salinger was stationed in Berlin‚ Germany. From further analysis of the short-story I have come to the conclusion that Seymour is Salinger’s role model. Seymour has just returned from World War II‚ as well as Salinger had when he wrote the story. Seymour returns to his native country very
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The short story‚ “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger was a literary work that surrounded the idea of an unhappy outsider criticizing a troubled and oftentimes materialistic society and the unbinding nature of children. In the story‚ the protagonist was Seymour Glass‚ while his mind was the antagonist. “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” begins with Muriel‚ Seymour’s wife‚ waiting on a phone call to be wired through from her probing mother. From the dialogue between Muriel and her mother
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Seymour Glass‚ the protagonist of the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger‚ would undoubtedly agree with Dylan. His story is seemingly a very common one; a soldier returns from war and finds himself unable to relate to those around him‚ and‚ without meaningful relationships‚ suffers a mental breakdown that ultimately ends in suicide. On the outside it seems as though Seymour follows this prototype exactly‚ but in reality‚ re-acclimating to civilian life only serves as a catalyst
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A Perfect Day for Bananafish; Stuck in the Bananahole J.D. Salinger’s short story‚ A Perfect Day for Bananafish‚ reveals the story of Seymour Glass‚ a veteran solider from WWII‚ who‚ upon returning home to America and his family‚ feels isolated and is unable to communicate and connect with his adult peers. After having trudged through his war experience‚ Seymour was subsequently forced to step back and see the shallow materialism in his surrounding world. This constrictive world traps him and slowly
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The theme of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" involves people’s perceptions of one another. The supporting characters in the story all view Seymour differently. For instance‚ the woman in the hotel sees her companion as torn and confused from the war. She seems annoyed with him‚ "I mean all he does is lie there. He won’t take his bathrobe off." The woman’s parents speak of Seymour "as though he were a raving maniac." They are concerned about the way he has acted in the past and what he may do in the
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According to Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ alienation means “a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment (“Alienation”). It results in loneliness‚ emptiness‚ and despair. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger‚ Seymour Glass is a man who had just come back from fighting in a war. He cannot relate to adults‚ especially his wife‚ Muriel‚ and the people at the resort he is staying at who are all narcissistic and live lavishly. Seymour
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the short stories “Soldier’s Home” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish‚” the two protagonists’ lives after brutal wars explicitly demonstrate the idea that although they survived their battles‚ their fascination with war is no longer there. Still‚ they find it difficult to adjust to normalcy after all they have seen. For both Krebs and Seymour‚ wars have dehumanized them and let them become social outsiders and pathetic heroes
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Salinger immediately slipped into his writing career‚ quickly becoming well known for his published works‚ using his experiences in the war to breathe life and ingenuity into his work. The first story in Salinger’s 9 Short Stories is “A Perfect Day For Bananafish”‚ in which the protagonist is a young‚ mentally damaged war veteran on vacation with his wife. It seems to be made to be linked to the last story in Salinger’s anthology‚ “Teddy”‚ which features a spiritually enlightened 10 year old boy
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trouble dealing with it. In some cases‚ the character in the story fails to realize that they are struggling‚ however their actions lead the reader to believe otherwise. Two characters I believe are similar to one another are Seymour in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
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