BananaFish represent many thing in JD’s salinger’s story perfect day for bananafish. Bananafish are a fictional animal whom live in the ocean. They go into holes full of bananas, and eat until they are full, but cannot get back out of the hole again and die.
One thing the banana fish represent is the journey from childhood to adulthood. Seymour, the character who came up with the idea of banana fish, went to war, and suffers from PTSD or depression because he commits suicide at the end of the story. Seymour communicates much better with children than adults, which says that he wishes he contained child-like innocence. Before the banana fish go into the banana hole, they are considered “innocent”, since they have not eaten the bananas yet. The pre-banana hoe banana fish are considered child like characters. Entering into the banana hole and eating the bananas is symbolizing entering into adulthood, which is very bad mistake. Not being able to leave the banana hole represents how entering into adulthood is an irreversible change that will have an unpleasant ending, because after you become an adult, you cannot rewind time and become a child with child-like innocence again. …show more content…
Seymour went to war and essentially lost his innocence, and came back with a different perspective. Before going into war/ the banana hole, Seymour still has what little innocence that adulthood offers, but all of his innocence is lost she he goes into the war, or goes into the banana hole. After the war, he still can not get out of the morbid, scared mindset that war can bring, just like how the banana fish cannot get back out of the hole.
Overall, bananafish are very important in the short story a perfect day for banana fish by jd saligner. They represent two important topics that effect Seymour. Even though banana fish may be fictional, they still represent very real ideas that still occur in the world
One thing the banana fish represent is the journey from childhood to adulthood. Seymour, the character who came up with the idea of banana fish, went to war, and suffers from PTSD or depression because he commits suicide at the end of the story. Seymour communicates much better with children than adults, which says that he wishes he contained child-like innocence. Before the banana fish go into the banana hole, they are considered “innocent”, since they have not eaten the bananas yet. The pre-banana hoe banana fish are considered child like characters. Entering into the banana hole and eating the bananas is symbolizing entering into adulthood, which is very bad mistake. Not being able to leave the banana hole represents how entering into adulthood is an irreversible change that will have an unpleasant ending, because after you become an adult, you cannot rewind time and become a child with child-like innocence again. …show more content…
Seymour went to war and essentially lost his innocence, and came back with a different perspective. Before going into war/ the banana hole, Seymour still has what little innocence that adulthood offers, but all of his innocence is lost she he goes into the war, or goes into the banana hole. After the war, he still can not get out of the morbid, scared mindset that war can bring, just like how the banana fish cannot get back out of the hole.
Overall, bananafish are very important in the short story a perfect day for banana fish by jd saligner. They represent two important topics that effect Seymour. Even though banana fish may be fictional, they still represent very real ideas that still occur in the world