A Perfect Day for Bananafish
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A Perfect Day for Bananafish is a well known short story written by J. D. Salinger. It appeared in Nine Stories (1948). It tells about the honeymoon of a young man called Seymour Glass, a member of the prodigious Glass Family, which Salinger also wrote about in several other books, Franny and Zooey, Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters, Seymour: An Introduction and Hapworth 16, 1924.
The word bananafish comes from a story that Seymour tells to a little girl on the beach which reflects the non-conformist and deeply pessimistic look of Seymour, the book as a whole, and Salinger himself.