It is arguable that she wants to impress him with her looks. From another, readers might consider that she only worries about her looks to seem better than others, and to make people envy her beauty. J.D. Salinger’s use of characterization is significant in the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”. Seymour, whose name “perhaps indicates that he sees more clearly than other people” (Shuman 3), is described by William Wiegand, as “‘a bananafish himself, [who] has become so glutted with sensation that he cannot swim out into society again’” (Reiff 85). The author seems to be suggesting that Seymour has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or more commonly known as PTSD. The way that Seymour describes the bananafish explains that he, in fact is the bananafish, and after serving in the war, his innocence is irrecoverable. Salinger’s addition of “The trees. That business with the window. Those horrible things he said to Granny about her plans for passing away. What he did with all those pictures from
It is arguable that she wants to impress him with her looks. From another, readers might consider that she only worries about her looks to seem better than others, and to make people envy her beauty. J.D. Salinger’s use of characterization is significant in the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”. Seymour, whose name “perhaps indicates that he sees more clearly than other people” (Shuman 3), is described by William Wiegand, as “‘a bananafish himself, [who] has become so glutted with sensation that he cannot swim out into society again’” (Reiff 85). The author seems to be suggesting that Seymour has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or more commonly known as PTSD. The way that Seymour describes the bananafish explains that he, in fact is the bananafish, and after serving in the war, his innocence is irrecoverable. Salinger’s addition of “The trees. That business with the window. Those horrible things he said to Granny about her plans for passing away. What he did with all those pictures from