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	A Perfect Day for Bananafish (idea)
		He warns this child against the dangers of "the bananafish." All bananafish, it seems, look identical, and have a similar taste for bananas.
		The identical appearance of the fish is representative of the army fatigues that all soldiers wear.
		The title suggests that it was a perfect day for the veteran to kill himself.
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	a perfect day for bananafish
		After a weekend (or rather, weeknight- since Friday’s the only free day) of Indian food, dancing, drinking, playing pool and being in the company of wonderful people, I was brought harshly back to reality this morning in City Center’s Carrefour.
		I was doing my groceries with the enthusiasm of one walking through the valley in the shadow of death, looking forlornly at the equally forlorn-looking tomatoes when a high-pitched scream pierced the air.
		Zorro, our dog, walked up to me and then sat facing the couch I was sprawled on, and then started barking at the empty space next to me. Being a total scaredy-cat, I kicked Zorro away and ran to open lamps.
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	A Perfect Day for Bananafish Summary & Essays - J. D. Salinger
		‘‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’’ first appeared in the January 31, 1948, issue of the New Yorker and was collected as the first piece in Nine Stories (1953).
		The reader of "Bananafish" learns that Seymour, a veteran of World War II, has had trouble readjusting to civilian life—an understandable problem that thousands of soldiers had to face.
		Regardless of what specific motive a reader assigns to Seymour's suicide, he or she is sure to be involved in Salinger's elaborate game of symbols, colors, and other indirect means of storytelling.
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		His fixation upon his feet, which do not resemble the childlike feet that he desires to have, and the woman in the elevator’s scorn towards Seymour’s accusing her of staring at his feet, drive him to dislike the adult world even more.
		He is the bananafish who cannot escape the hole and achieve the spiritualism and childlike characteristics that he so desires.
		The interpretation of Seymour obtained from the story is that he is troubled by his own spiritual shortcomings (the result of too much intellectual treasure) as much as by the shortcomings of the people and the world around him.
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	A Perfect Day for Bananafish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story written by J.
		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 he fails to conform to life post-war but connects and tells a story of the bananafish to a young friend.
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	Suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hunger strikes have frequently been used as a form of protest by incarcerated persons, and result in death where neither side in the strike gives way.
		In the desperate final days of World War II, many Japanese pilots volunteered for kamikaze missions in a last attempt to forestall defeat for the Empire.
		The degree to which these pilots were engaging in heroic, selfless action or whether they faced immense social pressure is a matter of historical debate.
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	Catcher in the Rye, The - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
		The character of Franny dramatizes a theme Salinger spent most of the 1950s exploring: the conflict between alienation from a world the European existentialist philosophers described as meaningless and without religious certitude, and a neo-mystical, religious psychology that Franny exhibits in her desire to escape that world.
		Salinger suggests that mysticism and the search for perfection, which Franny absorbs from her brilliant but suicidal older brother Seymour, are insufficient solutions to the condition of modern humankind.
		Salinger's later fiction, scholars argue, is deeply philosophical and central to expressing the spiritual and psychological anxiety of artists and intellectuals in the post-World War II decades.
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	Free Essays on Perfect Day For A Bananafish
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		She is so caught up in her own image of a perfect world that she refuses to see the pain that her husband is suffering.
		He has delighted in her naive innocence, but knows that he is like that bananafish and unable to come out of his hole of emotional despair.
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	J.D. Salinger - MSN Encarta
		The bulk of the novel is an account, at once hilariously funny and tragically moving, of Holden's adventures in Manhattan.
		Reviewing it for the New York Times, novelist Eudora Welty praised Salinger's writing as “original, first-rate, serious and beautiful.” In one of the stories, 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' the author introduces the fictional Glass family, an Irish-Jewish New York family with seven children.
		The family's saga, colored by the suicide of the precocious eldest son, Seymour, and informed by Salinger's growing interest in Zen Buddhism, would become the center of the writer's work during the next decade.
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	A Brief Biography of J. D. Salinger
		During his school days he had no problem being the center of attention when amusing his classmates with well-told stories and jokes at other people's expense but when it was time to go out drinking, he usually chose to stay behind.
		When Joyce Maynard was living with him, she said he entered his study and spent most of the day there but she never saw his writing nor the vault where he said he kept his written work.
		Bananafish is a good story for understanding Salinger--his attraction for young girls, his irrational, hostile temper, his brilliance, his belief that he just doesn't belong in the real world.
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		In the case of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” you should speculate on the meaning of the story — the theme + the writer's message — before you start writing.
		There is no such thing as a bananafish — it is obviously a symbol; your task is to find out of what it is a symbol.
		On the basis of your characterization of this upper-class life (and how you imagine Seymour reacted to their lifestyle), you will probably want to compare his relationship to his wife and in-laws with the way he talks to the little girl.
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		A Perfect Day for Bananafish is about a young girl and a boy who both run away together to a beach resort in New York.
		But he begins to scare the girl by saying the most random, most wierd things such as what a bananafish is. She runs away from him and depresses Sybil even more.
		On his way back to the hotel room, he thinks that a woman is staring at his extremely pale feet when she was actually staring at the floor.
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	A PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAFISH
		"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is composed of three interconnected story lines, the first and third of them realistic, the second a kind of fantasy.
		She is petulant because she has heard that he let another little girl sit on his bench when he was playing the piano in one of the hotel's public rooms.
		In "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," one finds the elements of a three-act play, the third act of which has two scenes.
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		Re: A Perfect Day for a Bananafish-Post Tim O'Connor
		Re: A Perfect Day for a Bananafish-Post Benjamin Samuels
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		The lights are off, the day is ending, I'm all alone, and there's nothing else to do but watch the world pass me by.
		A whirlwind trip downtown with Julien at 6 in the evening, both of us shivering in the cold, holding hands while stepping over dog poo and spilt ice cream cones, dodging the mad crowd of Saturday shoppers, making faces at babies in carriages and running away before the babies started telling on their parents.
		This morning I woke up to rain and gray skies; immediately declared that today was officially "Lazy Day" and spent hours in my pajamas, dragging my blanket around with me, dawdling around the apartment.
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	essays research papers - A Perfect Day For Bananafish By J.D. Salinger
		The theme of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” involves people’s perceptions of one another.
		This is apparent through the way that she allows the phone to ring, “She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing.” To Muriel, nothing is more important than her nails, her clothes, and getting her own way.
		The Bananafish are a symbol of Muriel, who may eventually die after living a self-indulged life.
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	A Perfect Day for Bananafish Study Guide by J. D. Salinger
		A Perfect Day for Bananafish Study Guide consists of approx.
		She is in the middle of painting her nails and takes her time carefully capping the bottle and picking up an ashtray before answering the call.
		A Perfect Day for Bananafish from Short Stories for Students.
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		On this day in 1948, J. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" was published in the New Yorker; in the same magazine, on the same day in 1953, Salinger's "Teddy" also appeared.
		Its satire and singability made it a first-run sell-out, a cultural craze across England, the most produced play of the 18th century, and the original "ballad opera," first in the Gilbert and Sullivan line.
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	The Cub Reporter: A Perfect Day For Bananafish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Overall I'm less concerned about Prior, who seems to be a perfect pitching machine, born perfect and fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus.
		In the event of a tie-breaker playoff of Monday, his starter is #5 or Z on 3 days rest.
		You're right that it forces Zambrano on three days' rest for a potential playoff, but it wouldn't necessarily mean Prior can't start until game 3.
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	A Perfect Day for Bananafish quiz -- free game
		When Muriel is talking to her mother, she mentions that it is the hottest day they've ever had where she is on vacation.
		When Seymour Glass is describing bananafish, he explains how they go into little banana holes and gorge themselves on as many as 78 bananas.
		As he is about to go to his room on the fifth floor, a lady joins him in the elevator.
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		Bananafish: Re: A Perfect Day for a Bananafish-Post
		In reply to: Tim O'Connor: "Re: A Perfect Day for a Bananafish-Post"
		Reply: Benjamin Samuels: "Re: A Perfect Day for a Bananafish-Post"
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		As to "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," I thought the context made clear that by "Glass pieces" I meant the three long stories that have followed upon the invention of the Glass family -- the seven brilliant children, the vaudevillian parents.
		This occurred in the opening paragraphs of "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," which was printed in The New Yorker, Nov. 19, 1955.
		Scholes no doubt are acquainted with the rather strained and surprising section of "Seymour: An Introduction" in which Buddy/Salinger disowns "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" as having been written on an old defective typewriter.
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		"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. Salinger on Odeo
		Bananafish are ordinary-looking fish who swim into a banana hole, eat as many as 78 bananas, and then die of banana fever.
		This story actually has next to nothing to do with “bananafish,” but is really about the girl in room 507.
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		Their habits are very peculier." He kept pushing the float.
		But once they get in, they behave like pigs.
		Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon.
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	Okay, I requested that they make a Banana Fish category, but will it happen
		Mulland, the woman across the hall and two doors to the left, had given it to him, pitying him for his confined life, calling him a "poor Chinese house boy." The book was Nine Short Stories by J.D. Salinger, and Eiji still hadn’t touched it since she pushed it on him two days ago.
		In the story, a man who had to have had some mental disorder after the war (World War II, not Vietnam), spoke of these things called bananafish to this little girl at the shore.
		His wife, at the time, was being warned by her mother that the man might do something like he did to her grandmother (but it was never exactly clarified as to what that was), then, after leaving the little girl, the man went back into the hotel, watched his wife sleep, and then…
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		The definition of a “perfect day” could vary greatly among many different kinds of people, so for my own personal definition of a perfect day, I could not begin to define it with just a few words.
		I will have to take you along with me through what I would consider to be a perfect day so that you could receive the proper vision of this day.
		Being in my house around Christmas time, while it is snowing outside, would be the perfect setting and most wonderful way to start off my day.
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		Afterwards he started taking pictures and then shared his URL to people and I found the URL and left comments because now it was ok to do so because he wasn't a "boss" anymore.
		I had a 55-minute phone card, and of course she had to update me with the current happenings in the life of our smelly, snoring dog-- which is not much really, because he doesn't do much all day, except smell bad and snore, like I just mentioned.
		Apparently, Playstation can launch men into a distant, eldritch state of hypnotization, making them spend days rotting inside their rooms, marathon after marathon, till they emerge from their stupor with a cow-like gaze (read: dumb).
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