Bananafish

But he would permanently retain the dualism of "Bananafish," the view of the world as a battleground between the normal and the abnormal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the talentless and the gifted, the well and the sick.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

If the mother and daughter in "Bananafish" represented the least admirable features of mid-century female bourgeois culture, so Lane is an almost equally unprepossessing manifestation of Fifties male culture.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

One is the little girl in "Bananafish," who says "Hey!" when Seymour impulsively kisses the arch of her foot, after she says that she saw a bananafish.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

Salinger would also considerably amplify and complicate the simple harsh sketch of the regular world that "Bananafish" renders.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

But as he appears in "Bananafish," he isn't quite right for the role.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

Upon reflection, we can read "Bananafish" as a kind of allegory of Salinger's own career.

Inside Higher Ed 2010

The protagonist of "Bananafish" is Seymour Glass, the Glass sibling featured most often in Salinger's stories about that peculiar family.

NPR Topics: News 2010

In "Seymour: An Introduction," he allows Buddy Glass, the second-oldest brother and the story's narrator, to claim authorship of "Bananafish" (as well as of Catcher and the story "Teddy"), and then to admit that his portrait of Seymour is wrong ” is really a self-portrait.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

But one would like to know still more about the extended back-and-forth that resulted in the shattering tautness of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

Kenneth Slawenski's biography of J.D. Salinger 2011

But one would like to know still more about the extended back-and-forth that resulted in the shattering tautness of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

Kenneth Slawenski's biography of J.D. Salinger 2011