Creative Writting "A Perfect Day For Bananafish"

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Muriel Glass is in the Florida hotel room, and she is waiting the call of her mother. The hotel is full for a sales convention, so she have to wait a long time. Shefixes her clothing, paints her nails, and reads a magazine, when the call she reassures her anxious mother about her safety. Her mother know about the behavior of Seymour, her daughter husband. Seymourhas recently returned from the war, and Muriel’s mother believes that he was discharged from the military hospital prematurely. Muriel is not that concerned like her mother; her only interest is thefashion at the resort and the evening’s events. In the evenings, there are formal dinners and cocktail parties at the hotel, in which Seymour often sits apart, playing the piano. The resort is full ofsociety people, although Muriel feels that the quality of these people has diminished since the war. She tells her mother that Seymour is on the beach by himself. In the beach Seymor, is with athree-year-old Sybil Carpenter a girl how became best friend with Seymor, because Sybil was sent away from her mother, so they knew each other at the beach. He was joking with Sybil and tells her he likesher blue bathing suit, but her suit is yellow.

Sybil is jealous and accuses him of letting another little girl, Sharon Lipschutz, sit on the bench with him while he played the piano, but Seymourassures that Sybil t is his favorite. Sybil tells Seymour he should push Sharon off the piano bench next time. As they get ready to go into the ocean, Sybil asks Seymour whether he likes SharonLipschutz, and Seymour tells her that he does, especially the fact that she is nice to small dogs and always kind.

In the water, Seymour puts Sybil onto the raft and says it’s a perfect day for bananafish.He explains that these are normal-looking fish that swim into banana holes and greedily eat all the bananas inside. As a result, the bananafish become so fat that they cannot leave their holes and...