Characterization is significant in this section. It goes on to evaluate and describe characters’ actions in a story, such as Muriel Glass’s egocentricity. This can be seen in the quotation “her self-interest seems to overshadow what should be her wifely concern for her troubled husband” (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” 1). Salinger is illustrating the image that Muriel is more concerned about herself than her husband, who is clearly mentally ill. Salinger’s addition of “she was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing” (1) makes it obvious that Muriel has always been the type of woman who would disregard the care of others for herself. From one perspective readers could think that Muriel has had a lot of time by herself waiting for Seymour to return from
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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