understanding. I am currently reading Franny and Zooey, and I realize that Salinger’s favorite transitional word is “incidentally”. Salinger also, uses this word a lot in A Perfect Day for Bananafish. I love the fact that it is a third person narrator, but it was not what I was expecting. While reading A Perfect Day for Bananafish, I became more interested in the characters than the actual text. During the conversation between Muriel and her mother, I realize that Muriel portrays a sense of control

The short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D Salinger is about Seymour Glass, who has come back from World War II, and tries to associate with people in society. Still, he finds that interacting with a young child is easier as she is the only person that go along well due to mental illness from the war. So, Seymour makes a conversation with Sybil, an innocent young girl that knows nothing about the war. In the passage, J.D Salinger uses a symbolism of bananafish to indicate how Seymour expresses

human has their own struggles. Different events in one’s life can alter the way one perceives the world. This is evident in J.D. Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, which follows Seymour Glass and his struggle to regain feelings that he once had. Through symbolism in J.D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," the reader is shown how important innocence is and how people who have lost it would stop at nothing to regain it. Seymour tries to regain his sense of innocence

Seymour’s Bananafish and an Impossible Pursuit of Innocence In Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Second World War veteran Seymour struggles to navigate through his dissatisfaction towards the materialism of the modern world and his impossible desire to return to the pure and uncorrupted state of innocence. Seymour’s wife, Muriel and mother-in-law both typify the vapidity that he so despises, all the while revealing through their conversation the external circumstances that have

J.D. Salinger’s short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish, is a war story in disguised , as it contains a sufficient amount of war imagery and references. The story, is about Seymour Glass, a WWII veteran, about how he loses his innocence after experiencing combat and how it affects him when he returns home. Its about how ordinary people go to war, and see things that changes them forever. To quote a WWII General, “There are no such things as extraordinary men who change events, there are only extraordinary

J.D. Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” provokes the reader with many questions as to why Seymour chose to end his life so dramatically. The short story incorporates a variety of symbols such as the character’s name, Seymour Glass, to develop a deeper interpretation of the story. “Seymour, as noted, “sees more” than the average person, and like glass, is easily broken” (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”). Salinger was not heedless to the reasoning behind this name chosen for one of the most illustrious

On average it’s said that 22 veterans take their own lives, every single day. In the short story, Perfect Day for Bananafish, J.D. Salinger demonstrates going to war changes a person for life, and can even lead to suicidal tendencies. Seymour Glass is an army veteran returning from WW2 and is on the brink of a physchotic brink. Seymour’s lucid state and unfit marriage leads to him ending his life. In Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger, Seymour is portrayed as a traumatized veteran going psychotic

posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the short story “A Perfect Day For Bananafish” J.D. Salinger tells the story of a World War II veteran Seymour Glass who is struggling to find his place in society after returning from war. Throughout the story many symptoms of PTSD force Seymour to be isolated from the rest of the world. This isolation becomes so difficult for Seymour to handle that he turns to suicide. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” J.D. Salinger discusses how PTSD leads to isolation and