A Perfect Day for Bananafish | Critical Overview
In his controversial biography, In Search of J. D. Salinger, Ian Hamilton calls ‘‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "spare, teasingly mysterious, withheld’’—surely a deliberate understatement in light of the great deal of ink the critical community has spilled over the story. In his essay ‘‘A Critical Perspective on the Works of J. D. Salinger’’ (collected in Harold Bloom's 2002 J. D. Salinger, part of the Bloom's Bio-Critiques series), Clifford Mills remarks that Salinger's stories may be read as ''riddles without any obvious solutions'' and points of...
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