Analyse af 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'

Many people are dealing with ptsd after an experience or a hard time in their lives. In the short story “a perfect day for bananafish, we got to meet a guy called Seymour, who is suffering ptsd because he went to war. The short story is written by J.D Salinger, and published January 31th 1948.

Seymour glass is a veteran of world war 2 and has had trouble readjusting to civilian life- an understandable problem that thousands of soldiers have faced. We find out most of the information about him through the phone conversation between his wife Muriel and h alone with Seymour and her mother at the beginning of the short story. The mother is very nervous about Muriel being away and being alone with Seymour. She is appealed that he was released by the hospital, and she recounts a few his actions that let the reader know that he is suffering from what we know today as PTSD.

Muriel appears through the first few pages of the short story and then fades from the story. Her role is to provide the reader with Seymour’s story. She represents the upper middle-class wife who waited for her husband to come back home, so they could life on their lives.