There is a greater wisdom that is visible in her. Her name alone suggests that she is a prophet like character, who is able to see the bananafish that Seymour describes to her during their swim (Perfect 236). She helps Seymour identify with what he believes life should be like: spiritual and pure. Sybil Carpenter is a main protagonist to the story for more reasons than one. She has alienated her husband from true happiness in life by adopting the values of a materialistic society, while he cares only for a world of innocence and morality. She is a stubborn woman, and is in denial of the potential danger she is exposed to with Seymour.
Muriel brushes off the comment and tells her mother she is not leaving her much needed vacation. Your father said last night he would be more than willing to pay for it if youd go away someplace by yourself and think things over. She has a conversation with her mother, who is desperately trying to convince her to leave her husband and move back to New York. "She a girl who for a ringing phone exactly nothing," (Theme). She lacks the will to understand Seymour's pain. Despite the fact that her new marriage to Seymour is strained, she makes no effort to help her husband cope with his mental issues. Muriel is a self centered, materialistic woman whose main concerns are herself, and her appearance. Martinis, beaches, and phony people constantly crowd his world, and when he, like the bananafish, becomes engorged with nonsense and corruption, the only escape is to take his own life.Īnother Protagonist is Muriel, the wife of Seymour Glass. The war has left him so badly broken, that he is determined to find some purity left in the world to hold on to. What he did with all those lovely pictures from Bermuda-everything (Salinger 6). Those horrible things he said to Granny about her plans for passing away. The comments made by Muriels mother regarding Seymours behavior, explains how disturbed he is. All the comments about Seymours destruction, explains how volatile he has become. He has a difficult time adapting physically, mentally, and spiritually to a society heavily based on materialism. It isnt hard to believe that Seymour saw action in World War II that affected him in terrible and unspoken ways (Perfect236). He is a man who has recently returned from the war, and is suffering from post -traumatic stress. His interaction with Sybil explains this behavior. Hes engaging, entertaining, kind, and obviously amazing with children (Shmoop Editorial Team). The main protagonist of this story is Seymour Glass. The fact that Muriel has no concern for her husbands mental health, and continues her disconnected communication with him, further explains the idea that isolation is destructive in society, and causes and individual to an unthinkable escape. Seymour is so detached from the world he lives in, that he takes the ultimate escape, suicide. Muriels family is concerned with Seymours behavior, and fears for their daughters safety. He cannot connect with her, due to the fact that she is more interested in herself, than her own husband while on their vacation. Seymour is in a loveless marriage to his wife Muriel. Seymour Glass, a young World War II veteran, has just been released from the military hospital, and is having difficulty adjusting to normalcy in society. The story A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D.
So yes, modern day American society has a lot to do with the literature that sprang up in the 1950's and the themes that were found in the literature back then are still definitely present in society today.Alienation is so destructive in society, that it forces and individual to an unthinkable escape. He didn't want to see America become what it is now and he wanted to see that old lovely America be preserved. This is what society has become and this is exactly the change that Allen Ginsberg didn't want to see. We live in a society of people that own more pairs of shoes than they could ever need in a life time. Every new product that comes out is a must buy for every person in the country and we live in a must have society. Now a days American society is more concerned with material possessions than ever before. The way that Americans became more like consumerists day by day and the way that possession defined objects became more valued than the morals that once shaped American into the mighty nation that it is. This is exactly what A Supermarket in California and A Perfect Day for Bananafish are about. The movement that began around the World War II time period has fully bloomed into what society is now. The literature that we assigned the class to read has a lot to do with the way society was starting to become in the 1950's and it carries on to this modern era as well.
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