My most perfect day would be on a brisk December morning‚ as the new sunlight filtered weakly through storm glass‚ my bare feet would touch the frigid hard wood floor for a second before finding my fluffy white slippers. I would walk through a long‚ dark hallway-complete with creepy photographs and a red Oriental hall rug-and a winding wooden staircase before reaching a black-and-white kitchen. In the kitchen‚ I would prepare myself a delicious hot mug of tea and pop some bread in the toaster. Blackberry
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literature. In the short stories “Soldier’s Home” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish‚” the two protagonists’ lives after brutal wars explicitly demonstrate the idea that although they survived their battles‚ their fascination with war is no longer there. Still‚ they find it difficult to adjust to normalcy after all they have seen. For both Krebs and Seymour‚ wars have dehumanized them and let them become social outsiders and pathetic heroes
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Describe your perfect day Waking up crack of dawn is the best way to start my day. The shimmering sun rays make their way through slit of my baby pink‚ silk satin curtains. The warm sunbeam acts like an alarm clock‚ striking my face as an untouchable object. I cover my face with my thick‚ yet light hot pink quilt‚ trying to avoid the fact that I have to wake up. I snooze knowing the fact that I don’t have to rush out of my ever welcoming bed. My bed is my best friend. Taking a lazy walk around
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According to Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ alienation means “a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment (“Alienation”). It results in loneliness‚ emptiness‚ and despair. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger‚ Seymour Glass is a man who had just come back from fighting in a war. He cannot relate to adults‚ especially his wife‚ Muriel‚ and the people at the resort he is staying at who are all narcissistic and live lavishly
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trouble dealing with it. In some cases‚ the character in the story fails to realize that they are struggling‚ however their actions lead the reader to believe otherwise. Two characters I believe are similar to one another are Seymour in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
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It was a cold‚ sunny day. An excellent time to play football with friends‚ drink sweet cherry Gatorade and relax. I expected today to be a perfect day but soon I would find this not to be true. As a young child I was unquestionable active‚ so my neighbor‚ Nathan‚ and I decided to throw the football around. We threw the football around about two times. As Nathan went to throw the football a third time the football slipped out of his hand‚ hit a barbecue grill‚ causing it to fly over the fence that
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Can self-indulgence and materialism lead to social chaos and self-destruction? In “Teddy” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish‚” J.D. Salinger reveals that the ostentation of society results in the downfalls of the protagonists. Both Seymour Glass and Teddy McArdle feel embarrassed and uncomfortable because of their distinctions from the majority of the people they are surrounded by. Seymour suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome as an affect of the war‚ and Teddy retains the mind of a child genius
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of 1948.” The mother disapproves of this‚ though the daughter who cares too much for the man to take his degrading comments negatively but instead “giggles” over them. J.D. Salinger uses diction‚ tone and detail to describe the characters of "A Perfect day for Bananafish"‚ by showing the concern for each other; the love of the mother for her child‚ and Muriel’s concern for her husband‚ Seymour‚ and what may come of him due to his disorder. J.D Salinger uses diction to develop Muriel’s mother‚ Muriel
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When speaking of the Glass family the eldest child Seymour cannot be overlooked. Seymour Glass plays a pivotal role in the identity of the Glass family itself. The first publication dealing with the Glass family is a short story entitled‚ “A Perfect Day for Bannanafish.” The story begins with Seymour’s wife in a hotel room‚ talking on the phone to her mother about Seymour’s strange behavior. It then progresses to Seymour out on the beach talking to a little girl‚ Sybil Carpenter‚ and telling her
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A clash of philosophies: Seymour Glass vs The Misfit Two books written by J.D. Salinger‚ known for his “Catcher in the Rye”‚ proposes two alternative thinking towards the defiance against society and its current state of “accepted” reality. Below you’ll find a short comparison of the similarities and differences of the characters Seymour Glass‚ a war veteran‚ and The Misfit‚ an escaped convict. How are Seymour Glass and The Misfit similar? Seymour Glass and the Misfit are similar in a sense
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