A Perfect Day for Bananafish

as a conceited woman who cares more about herself then other people. This can be seen in the quotation “her preoccupation with her own appearance. Her answering the telephone only on the fifth or sixth ring again accents her vanity” (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”). The author seems to be suggesting Muriel doesn’t jump to actions for other people. She finishes what she is doing with herself and then will go to the needs of other people. Salinger adds to this by saying “While the phone was…

stories Totem written by Thomas King and A Perfect Day For Bananafish written by J.D. Salinger a truth within humanity is shown. The story Totem takes place in a museum in Alberta and the totem poles are making sounds that are annoying to the people in the museum so they displace the totem poles. This is indirectly symbolizing the native communities of Canada and how they are ignored and pushed away. On the other hand, the story A Perfect Day For Bananafish is about a man returning from the…

Bananafish represent many things in J.D. Salinger’s story “A Perfect Day For Bananafish”. Bananafish are fictional animals 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 eventually die. Seymour, the character who came up with the idea of bananafish, went to war, and suffers from PTSD or depression because he commits suicide at the end of the story. Seymour communicates better with children than adults; for…

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…

World War II veterans expressed symptoms of PTSD. J.D. Salinger, the author of both “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “For Esmé – With Love and Squalor” fought in World War II and was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown at the end of the war and later diagnosed with PTSD. In both short stories, the protagonists are dealing with the after effects that the war has caused them. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “For Esmé – With Love and Squalor,” the protagonists try to deal from the horrors…

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…

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…

American Society’s Materialism in A Perfect Day For Bannafish J.D Salinger believes society turns each and every one of us into bananafish. In his short story A Perfect Day For Bananafish he expresses some of his views on the American society and the problems that he has with it. He believes Americans put too much value in material possessions and that their lives, shaped by a constant bombardment of advertisements and new products that are bigger and better than the last, are harmful to…

The short stories ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’ (1948) and ‘For Esmé—with Love and Squalor’ (1950) present the American writer Jerome David Salinger in his prime. Both short stories are well-acclaimed by critics as well as readers, as they preceded the author’s well-known novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Although the two short stories may not be as famous as the worldwide-known Salinger’s masterpiece is, they both represent him maybe even better than The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden…

written. Sophocles play Oedipus the King, written in 496 BC is similar to J.D. Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” published in 1948 in many ways. Both the play and the short story have many coinciding ideas such as the struggle of finding out who you really are in the world. Many people struggle with this problem, like the main characters, Seymour Glass in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger and Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Oedipus, the King of…