In the story "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" what is the significance or connection between the...

The banana fish is an imaginary species of fish. According to Seymour, the banana fish is just an average looking fish that is doomed to live a life that ends in tragedy. The previously normal...

The big picture shows that the bananafish represents societies tendency to focus on material possessions, over-indulge, and waste life and ultimately die from their over-consumption. Reading this story for the first time, I remember I thought for sure there was some sort of sexual symbolism involved here. The whole story about a "banana" fish going into a whole then never being able to leave seemed like a symbol for being whipped. And when the little girl is in the water with Seymore, it is said she throws her head back in pleasure and claims to see a bananafish while Seymore holds her by her feet and pushes her back and forth. The sexual innuendo was too much to ignore.

To me it represents Seymour itself, the bananafish is an ordinary looking one but with a tragic live, seymour is of that kind, affected strongly and differently by war than ordinary people reacts tragicgly killing himself, the reference of blue denotes calm, its almost a filosophical decition. The references of sexual nature are there as in any human being, but a sensityve nature as the writers one wouldnt give them a role except a satirical one, playing with the references and the posible readings.

Seymour Glass is characterized by his peers as someone who is completely out of control; he was released from the military hospital, and no one seems to understand why he was released because of...