A Perfect Day for Bananafish | Seymour Glass
With his almost nonchalant suicide at the story's end, Seymour has become one of American literature's most enigmatic characters. ‘‘Why did he do it?'' is a difficult question with which many readers and writers struggle; an overview of the story, however, suggests a few possible routes of inquiry about Seymour's past and present problems.
The reader learns (from Muriel's conversation with her mother) that Seymour served in the United States Army and spent an undisclosed amount of time in a veteran's hospital, presumably for psychiatric evaluation or recovery. Since the story...
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