![]() ![]() Other symbols include water, the hot sand, children, clothing, disease (banana fever), feet, and the gun. No longer able to protect the young girl even at imaginary play, Seymour ends his life. The corruption of children is the last bastion for Salinger's protagonists. In other words, dont tell what happened in the story, but rather, tell what the. Please note that a critical interpretation is not a plot synopsis it is an analysis that examines various literary elements in the writing to demonstrate the author’s purpose. ![]() In his cases, his emotions get the better of him, and he shatters like glass as he commits suicide. Those fish were a symbol of his dead brother Allie, who was forever frozen in time in Holden's mind.Īs with Holden's pre-occupation with wanting to be a catcher in the rye, Seymour cannot fathom a child corrupted, seeing one of the bananafish with six bananas in his mouth. Write a 1000-word critical interpretation paper about some aspect of the story A Perfect Day For Bananafish, by J. He symbolizes a banana fish that bottles up bananas until its dead. The bananafish are much like the fish who are trapped beneath the ice in Central Park that Holden Caulfield worries about in The Catcher in the Rye. Banana fever seems much like materialism: mankind's obsession with "things" (money, land, status, bullets, tanks, dead bodies, a good job, a nice house, etc.). The fat bananafish with bananas in their mouths are corrupted adults. Bananafish without bananas in their mouths are children, innocents. Not only can the hole be war, but it can also be a threshold, a coming of age from childhood to adulthood. the idea that Seymour is like the bananafish he describes: a man so glutted (with horror or pleasure) that he can no longer survive. They were "ordinary" when they swam into the hole (war) but become gluttonous (full of greed) while inside and become trapped, diseased, and dead. These men saw the horrors of war and the gluttony of death first hand. Given that Seymor, a World War II veteran, shoots himself at the end of the story, the bananafish are analogous to him and other veterans returned from war. "Oh, you mean after they eat so many bananas they can't get out of the banana hole?" Having just returned from the trauma and violence of World War II, Seymour seems to want to access his prewar innocence through playing with children, reveling in their playfulness, imagination, and naivety. "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. In A Perfect Day for Bananafish, innocence and violence often go hand and hand. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. "Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. The stories are: 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut' 'Just Before the War with the Eskimos' 'The Laughing Man' 'Down at the Dinghy' 'For Esmé with Love and Squalor' 'Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes' 'De Daumier-Smiths Blue Period' 'Teddy' A summary of the Nine Stories. Obviously, the main symbols are the bananafish, bananas, bananafever, and the bananahole. What techniques does Salinger use to make his characters’ conversations sound realistic? Write your paper as though your audience has read the story and that you, as critic, will help them better understand how to interpret it.Seymour Glass (a pun on self-reflection) is like Salinger, who saw heavy fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and may have suffered from post-war trauma. Some of the possible topics you might consider include the following: Why did Seymour commit suicide? What is the significance of the Bananafish story Seymour tells Sibyl? Why does Seymour become angry at the woman in the elevator? Is Seymour a pedophile? Was this Salinger’s intention in portraying the characters the way he did? How does Salinger use symbols and allusions to enhance the story? Most of the story consists of dialogue. In other words, don′t tell what happened in the story, but rather, tell what the events, characters, elements of irony or symbolism in the story mean. Write a 1000-word critical interpretation paper about some aspect of the story “A Perfect Day For Bananafish,” by J. She read an article in a womens pocket-size magazine, called 'Sex Is Fun-or Hell. Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements A Perfect Day for Bananafish THERE WERE ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through.
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