Sybil reproaches Seymour for allowing another little girl, Sharon Lipschutz, to sit with him the previous night as he played the lounge piano for the hotel's guests. Sybil wanders on the beach and finds Seymour, lying in solitude a quarter-mile from the hotel. Meanwhile, at the resort's adjoining beach, a child named Sybil Carpenter has been left unsupervised by her mother so that she may drink at the hotel bar. Muriel dismisses her remarks as hyperbole, regarding her husband's idiosyncrasies as benign and manageable. Muriel's mother is concerned by reports of her son-in-law's increasingly bizarre and anti-social actions, and warns her daughter that he may "lose control of himself". Muriel Glass, a wealthy and self-absorbed woman, phones her mother from her suite to discuss Muriel's husband Seymour, a World War II combat veteran recently discharged from an army hospital it is implied that he was being evaluated for a psychiatric disorder. The story is set at a large seaside resort in Florida. Scott Fitzgerald's " May Day." Plot summary The story met with immediate acclaim, and according to Salinger biographer Paul Alexander, was "the story that would permanently change his standing in the literary community." Salinger's decision to collaborate with Maxwell and The New Yorker staff in developing the story marked a major advance in his career and led to his entry into the echelon of elite writers at the journal. The New Yorker published the final version as "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" one year after Salinger first submitted the manuscript. In frequent consultation with editor Gus Lobrano, Salinger revised the story numerous times throughout 1947, renaming it "A Fine Day for Bananafish". Īt Maxwell's urging, Salinger embarked upon a major reworking of the piece, adding the opening section with Muriel's character, and crafting the material to provide insights into Seymour's tragic demise.
When the 28-year-old Salinger submitted the manuscript to The New Yorker in January 1947, titled "The Bananafish", its arresting dialogue and precise style were read with interest by fiction editor William Maxwell and his staff, though the point of the story, in this original version, was considered incomprehensible. It is the first of his stories to feature a member of the fictional Glass family. The story is an enigmatic examination of a young married couple, Muriel and Seymour Glass, on vacation in Florida. It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection Nine Stories. Salinger, originally published in the January 31, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J.
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