A Perfect Day For Bananafish

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger is an entertaining view of the negative and positive aspects of human nature. The nine short stories depict the lives of the Glass family, a family created by Salinger (Salinger). The members of this clan represent the different classes of society as Salinger saw them. Even though the stories and characters carry harsh moral lessons, they are quite intriguing and skillfully written. J.D. Salinger illustrates symbolism in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by the personalities of the characters and the bananafish parable in the story.

Salinger introduces Seymour Glass on the last day of his life (Westbrook). He is on the beach talking to his new six-year-old friend, Sybil Carpenter. She affectionately calls him “see more glass.” While they are playing, he asks her if she would like to catch a bananafish. She questions him and he tells her the following parable:

They lead a very tragic life… they swim into a hole where there’s a lot of bananas. They’re very ordinary-looking fish when the

mother-in-law, and his father-in-law. His mother-in-law thinks he is unstable and she does not trust him to drive her daughter, his wife, anywhere. His wife will not take up for him to her mother. She seems to be very snobbish and unconcerned. Seymour acts unaffected by these things when he is on the beach with Sybil. He tells her about the bananafish and jokes with her. When in reality the reader can see the pain that Seymour is put through on a day-to-day basis. Some psychologists believe that once a person has decided to take his or her own life, they are very calm and reasonably happy. They find peace knowing that the end is near (Bourne). Though the readers know his true feelings, Seymour seems to be in a very energetic mood, when he is on the beach with Sybil. The character of Seymour is quite aware of his snobbish wife and disapproving mother-in-law. Both Muriel and her mother easily fit into the bananafish parable also. With Muriel’s judgments of the other gue!

The character of Seymour Glass has many issues pertaining to his wife, his

y swim in. But once they get in they behave

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