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| american short stories | |
| short stories by j. d. salinger | |
| 1948 short stories | |
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It is the earliest writing concerning Salinger's Glass Family , and details a day spent by Seymour Glass on the beach, as his wife Muriel talks to her mother. It is widely praised for its depiction of the shell-shocked non-conformist Seymour, as illustrated by the story about the mythical Bananafish that he tells to a young girl. Other Glass Family stories include '''', and " Hapworth 16, 1924 ". INTERPRETATION Due to the fact that Salinger never discussed the meanings of his stories, the meaning of this story is widely disputed. One theory, however, it is believed that the bananafish that Seymour describes is Metaphor ically referring to himself. The hole that the bananafish swims into is quite possibly an Allusion to the war Seymour served in (possibly a reference to a foxhole of some sort, although it cannot be certain that Seymour actually spent time in a foxhole). That the bananafish eats so many bananas that it is unable to escape the hole is believed to be a reference to how Seymour's mind had gotten so filled up with so many horrors, that although he has left the "hole", in his mind he will never be able to escape it, and thus must put an end to things, which he does at the end of the story. EXTERNAL LINKS
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