![]() But, they have not realized that if one keeps using and using, then they will end up in bad shape. They just go through life and act like everything is okay. They act so happy, because other people have to pay for them. ![]() They take it for granted, and do not think anything bad will happen. Many people tend to take advantage of what they can get. I also love how the story can be related to every day life, as well. Any story that keeps you hooked on it and even applying the thought protruded by the story to your life is truly a good read. We start to answer the question on why he killed himself, and once we answer this question, we start thinking on how we can apply it to our everyday lives. Throughout the story, there is always an agonizing question that we ask and ask in our mind: "What is wrong with Seymour?" Once we truly find out what is wrong with him, with him abruptly killing himself, we start to have realizations. Even the first line hooks the person, with it ending with the girl not able to get her call through. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" grabs the attention to all readers. This makes them feel horrible, so they die. They then find that they have nothing to live for, because they had ignored everyone, and everyone has left them. It makes humans so consumed in their own things, that they forget about the other things in the world. He eventually died biblical references connects to "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in such a way that we find that doing anything in excess is deadly. This theme can be seen biblically, too, in 1 Samuel, when Nabal was found drunk and bearing a great feast. This shows the audience that they cannot continue doing something over and over again, or eating something in excess because it will cause great danger and harm the person. The reader only knows that he killed himself because of him explaining how the bananafish dies, which is by it eating a lot of bananas while in a hole, and then being so fat that it cannot fit out of the hole, so it dies. The reader, of course, never finds out about this thing that Seymour kept doing over and over again. This was shown by Seymour killing himself because he thought he was doing something over and over again that he should not be doing. This theme is that one should not do something excessively because it will put them in great danger. There is one prevailing theme in this story. We truly never find out about what is wrong with Seymour, but what happens to him? ![]() Sybil hangs out with Seymour every day at the beach, but Seymour did not tell Muriel about this. A little girl, named Sybil, comes up to him and asks him about the bananafish they can see in the water. He is at a beach, and he keeps his robe on, even though he needs a tan. ![]() Muriel keeps denying it, because she does not think anything is wrong with Seymour. Then the story changes to focusing on Seymour. The mother of Muriel, being the overprotective mother that she is (as most mothers are), keeps warning her daughter about how something is wrong with Seymour. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is about a wife, named Muriel, who is married to Seymour.
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