Perfect Day For Bananafish

4. J. D. Salinger and and William Forrester are very similar, as they are both recluses. Forrester is labeled as “The Window” by Jamal Wallace and his friends, because he never is seen leaving his apartment. Forrester watches birds regularly from his apartment through the window with binoculars, which is the only thing that anyone can see of him. This leads to rumors that Jamal and his friends talk about, such as Fly during lunch, “I heard he killed someone. That’s why he stayed inside” (Movie). William Forrester hates the fame that his book has brought him, which caused him to hide away. This left many to speculate if he ever wrote any other books, such as Jamal’s english teacher at his school, “This was the only book [William Forrester] chose to publish.

Salinger highlights the struggle after a loved one’s death through the protagonist, Holden, who accounts the memories of his brother Allie: “He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them” (Salinger 38). At an adolescent age, Holden had to go through the tragedy of his brother's death, where he demonstrated strange behavior due to his emotional instability. Holden had ruined his friendship with Stradlater, who’d asked Holden to write him an English prompt where Holden wrote about Allie’s glove, but had disappointed Stradlater, thus Holden tore the paper. Holden became furious due to the connection Holden had with his brother, he portrayed the misunderstanding that society and adolescents have of one another after a

Death affects us all in unusual ways. In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, Holden Caulfield has experienced a significant amount a trauma. He has had unfortunate, traumatic experiences, surrounding death. Due to Holden being so young; his immaturity affects the way he analyzes the traumas and pushes him into the depths of depression. Displaying signs of depression, Holden unknowingly rejects life and is resisting change. He does not show the drive to learn and to grow into an adult; disastrously Holden demonstrates depression and suicidal ideations.

Although Holden “hardly even know[s]” James, he sees him as someone who is real and not phony, admiring his resistance to lie (Salinger 171. The deaths of Allie and James cause Holden to contemplate suicide in order to escape the world of phoniness he lives in. Consequently, Holden’s constant thoughts about suicide lead to his own loss of innocence and advancement toward adulthood.

Muriel, Seymour’s wife, and her parents, are representing the kind of America the soldiers in World War II return to. They are unaware of what exactly has taken place and what kinds of unexplainable cruelties these soldiers have experienced. On top of that, Muriel and her mother seem very self-centered and extremely shallow, which doesn’t make it any better for Seymour to return to, even though they seem to show great concern for him and his kind of behavior. For example, we are being told about Muriel that “she was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.”

I was never a huge fan of children. I was never the girl to babysit all of the kids on my block. I was never the girl to spark up a conversation with a little girl or boy. I am the younger sibling and I have no younger cousins; I was the baby of the family, so I never really had to deal with children growing up. I never know what to say when I am talking to children because they do not understand the world the same way I do. Up until now, I never thought of that as a good thing. Seymour, a character from A Perfect Day for a Bananafish, is in a similar situation after returning from war with a severe case of PTSD. He talks to the children because they do not understand all of the tragedies of the world. Seymour has an easier time communicating

In A Perfect Day for Bananafish a man with PTSD named Seymour had to feel the harsh rejection of society. Seymour was a war veteran who can back to America and was a little unstable because of it. He had many quirks that made him odd like he was scared of trees and yelled at someone for just looking at his feet. “He told him everything. At least, he said he did--you know your father. The trees. That business with the window. Those horrible things he said to Granny about her plans for passing away. What he did with all those lovely pictures

In the novel, the readers get to read about Allie, Holden's younger brother, who died of leukemia. He believes that adults, and his parents in general, are “phony” because they must move forward with their lives, even beyond the tragedy of their son’s death. As the story continues, Salinger writes “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”

"Well, they[Bananafish] swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary- looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs.... "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door." In J.D. Salinger’s collection of tales doubly titled “Nine Stories”, He portrays the loss of innocence along with other themes. He does this in a very unorthodox way. In the above quote, A character named Seymour Glass is talking to a child about a fish called Bananafish. These fish are very naive and travel into holes filled with bananas to fulfil their desires but think they will be perfectly fine but they are never able

It is the consensus of most critics that Seymour Glass is the most important character and the leader of the Glass family. This is a point that is obvious from the stories that Salinger has written about the Glass family. Seymour is looked up to and revered by all the children in the family and is his mothers “favorite, most intricately calibrated, her kindest son”(Franny 89). When catastrophe strikes in Franny and Zooey, the only person Franny wants to talk to is Seymour. Why is Seymour the most important person in the Glass family?

Holden has a drastic change in his mental state immediately after his brother dies. “They were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage... It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it, and you didn’t know Allie.” (Salinger, 39) This illustrates how directly after the death of his brother he started doing things he didn’t normally do, for no reason.

Seymour kills himself as a victim of his own inability to reconnect to real society after his wartime experience. Right from the get go, when Muriel's mother expresses that “there's a very great chance... that Seymour may completely lose control of himself” (Salinger 2), we see how people surrounding Seymour are concerned for his mental health due to a host of his previous erratic behaviors. These include “funny business with the trees [when driving]”, “that business with the window [he broke it]”, and the “horrible things he said to Granny about her plans for passing away” (Salinger 2), which when compounded, clearly demonstrates Seymour’s struggle to reconnect with society. His disconnection is also emphasized when he kisses Sybil’s foot

The End of Innocence “I’ve been worried to death about you. Why haven’t you phoned? Are you all right?” (Salinger). In this line, Muriel’s mother expresses concern for Muriel’s well being given that Muriel’s traveling companion has post traumatic stress disorder.

It is evident that the protagonist, Holden Caulfield suffers from depression due to the death of his younger brother, Allie in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Due to Allie’s death, Holden’s actions elicit his own views of the world and the “phonies” around him.  Holden has tunnel-vision to living a simple, happy life and isolates himself from those around him who understand the concept of growing up. Salinger uses a hat, a museum, and a merry-go-round to illuminate Holden’s emotion, the notion of adulthood, and the reality of growing up. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and the studies of Ego, Superego, and Id are used to show the significance of Holden’s behavior in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

This is the external problem that Seymour was suffering, the materialistic society; he risked his life in the war and now he return to a place where everyone just care about themselves. I think the beach influenced much this idea of Seymour because when we are in the beach we are more carefree than in other