A Perfect Day for Bananafish | Sybil Carpenter
As her first name suggests, Sybil is a seer or prophet-like character, who is able to "see" the bananafish that Seymour describes to her during their swim. Her opening words (‘‘See more glass’’) also suggest her ability to perceive the deeper meaning of experience, a quality that many of Salinger's child characters possess—and one that many of his adult characters lack. (Her mother's reaction to her precocious insight is to tell Sybil things like ‘‘stop saying that'' and then leaving her for a martini.) Her innocence acts as a tonic for the troubled Seymour and her...
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