Humans are so greedy that they take anything they can. This signifies the process of growing up. He tells her how the bananafish gorges itself on bananas until it is so stuffed it cannot leave its burrow. He tells her that they are looking for bananafish, some mythical creature that he probably made up when he, himself, was a child. Seymour longs to regain the innocence that he had in childhood, the innocence he lost while growing up and leaving to war. Children were simple minded and innocent and not touched by the harsh darkness of the world. The only people he could make a connection to were children. Seymour likes to spend his time alone, whether it be alone at the piano in a club or lounging at the beach. Muriel did not acknowledge her mother's concern for her and her mother did not hear the constant reassurances that Muriel was fine. They were talking at each other and not with each other. She was on the phone with her mother, but neither of them were listening to each other. Muriel is not like Seymour at all, she's superficial and centered around materialistic things. In the beginning, with the conversation between Muriel and her mother, the reader can sense that Seymour might be mentally or emotionally unstable. This is a story about desperation, about a man who was exhausted of trying to fit into a society where he was not welcomed. He never asked Sybil to look at 'his bananafish' as some ignorant reviewer posted. Let's get one thing straight, Seymour Glass was not a sex offender. Salinger died of natural causes at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book form, but the ensuing publicity indefinitely delayed the release.Īnother writer used one of his characters, resulting in copyright infringement he filed a lawsuit against this writer and afterward made headlines around the globe in June 2009. In the late 1990s, Joyce Maynard, a close ex-lover, and Margaret Salinger, his daughter, wrote and released his memoirs. His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.Īfterward, Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton. He followed with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). The success led to public attention and scrutiny: reclusive, he published new work less frequently. Widely read and controversial, sells a quarter-million copies a year. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield especially influenced adolescent readers. He released an immediate popular success. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. People well know this author for his reclusive nature. Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.
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