A perfect Day for Bananafish is portraying a man, Seymour’s journey towards a realization that leads him to take his own life. The climax of the story is when seymour kisses the young girl, Sybil’s foot. After coming back from a traumatic experience from the war, Seymour is on a search for innocence. He wants to rid himself of the impure, finding the people he once loved no longer innocent and almost disgusting: “He calls me Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1949” (5). He even dislikes his wife, as she isn’t pure, not like a child at least which leads him to calling her degrading names. This is why Seymour befriends Sybil, a young girl he accompanies at the beach. Kids are so innocent, they haven’t been exposed to the real world yet, which is why he surrounds …show more content…
This leads Seymour to thinking he’s escaped the world he despises so much and he made it into the pure place. Seymour he kisses her foot. But her rejection of this brings him right back into reality: “The young man suddenly picked up one of Sybil’s wet feet, which were dropping over the of the float, and kisses the arch. “Hey!” says the owner” (17). Before this he was in his own mind acting out a place where he was a part of the pure world. But when Sybil rejected his need to be innocent, he realized he can never go back from his impurity from life and the war. “Hey yourself! We’re going in now” (17), he ends the trip in the water and the rest of the story is all falling action towards Seymour ending it all. He no longer cares about tidiness as he did in the beginning: “He folded the robe, first lengthwise, then in thirds” (13), and then after the rejection: “the young man put on his robe, closed the lapels tight, and jammed his towel into his pocket (17). He no longer cared about anything else except what he already knew was