I have read many short stories in my time. Some of them have well rounded characters, some of them have flat characters. Some characters in narratives are easy to understand, everyone knows everything about them, but, there a few stories where the protagonist is misunderstood. There is one character that sticks out among all of them I know. That character is Seymour Glass, the protagonist in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”. This is also the character I will be focusing on in this essay.
We know Seymour feels as if he’s lost in his own world because we know Seymour is better off at the end than those in the short story do. Because we can go through the story see what he said and what his actions were. While Muriel has to live with the fact she
We know Seymour feels as if he’s lost in his own world because we know Seymour is better off at the end than those in the short story do. Because we can go through the story see what he said and what his actions were. While Muriel has to live with the fact she