Day For Bananafish
In the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” the author tells us about the Glass family and relationships between its members affecting the problem of a person who is not able to become a part of society due to some terrible events in the past.
Most of the important things have taken place outside the story and these events are unfolded through the dialogues. For instance, the dialogue between Seymour’s wife and her mother helps the reader to find out that Seymour was a soldier and was released from a military hospital. Also, this dialogue shows us mother's skeptical attitude towards this person, as well as the conversation between
Seymour and the little girl reveals the gulf between him and Muriel (he does not even know where she is at …show more content…
When they are floating in the sea, Seymour wants Sybil to see fish that swim in caves and eat bananas until they become so full of them that can not exit the cave and die from banana fever there.
Symbolically, we can imagine that the life of those fish is the life of Seymour. Exactly how they eat bananas one after another, this man experienced lots of horrific things during the war. He suffered there a lot but was soon alowed to leave the hospital. He did not get the proper treatment after that and got a “banana fever”. Family and other people around him do not accept his manners, considering them unsafe and improper. His desire to spend his time with children shows his inner state of sincerity and simplicity that belongs only to children and can not be expressed when he is among adults.
Bananafish are full of bananas, because of which they can not get out of the cave, and Seymour’s torturous emotions which he is not able to express overwhelm him in the same way.
Another symbol of this story is a blue color. Usually, this color is associated with something pure. Seymour is dressed in clothes of exactly this colour at the seashore. This may serve as a
Most of the important things have taken place outside the story and these events are unfolded through the dialogues. For instance, the dialogue between Seymour’s wife and her mother helps the reader to find out that Seymour was a soldier and was released from a military hospital. Also, this dialogue shows us mother's skeptical attitude towards this person, as well as the conversation between
Seymour and the little girl reveals the gulf between him and Muriel (he does not even know where she is at …show more content…
When they are floating in the sea, Seymour wants Sybil to see fish that swim in caves and eat bananas until they become so full of them that can not exit the cave and die from banana fever there.
Symbolically, we can imagine that the life of those fish is the life of Seymour. Exactly how they eat bananas one after another, this man experienced lots of horrific things during the war. He suffered there a lot but was soon alowed to leave the hospital. He did not get the proper treatment after that and got a “banana fever”. Family and other people around him do not accept his manners, considering them unsafe and improper. His desire to spend his time with children shows his inner state of sincerity and simplicity that belongs only to children and can not be expressed when he is among adults.
Bananafish are full of bananas, because of which they can not get out of the cave, and Seymour’s torturous emotions which he is not able to express overwhelm him in the same way.
Another symbol of this story is a blue color. Usually, this color is associated with something pure. Seymour is dressed in clothes of exactly this colour at the seashore. This may serve as a