In his short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” J. D. Salinger highlights the internal struggles of a war veteran, Seymour Glass, as he readjusts to life at home. Seymour’s actions, a result of his homecoming, display a personal triumph where escapism seems the only path. Muriel, his wife, as well as her mother, are both fully aware of his deteriorating mental state (Salinger, 3), but neither of them sees his state as a threshold for any form of personal violence, the mother more concerned with the safety of her daughter as mothers often are. Seymour’s mental state, likely PTSD or Traumatic Brain Injury, isolates him from the people he is surrounded by, including his wife, who he called “Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948”(Salinger 2), and,
