Jamie Fallon
Professor M. Berkowitz
WRT 201
14 September 2015

A perfect day for banana fish A perfect day for banana fish is about a girl who goes to visit her husband. Her husband was in the army and was released from a hospital. The girl’s name is Muriel and her husband’s name is Seymour. She goes to visit husband at a hotel. While she is at the hotel, her husband is out on the beach. Muriel had a phone conversation with her mother while she was in the hotel room in which her mother showed how worried she was about Muriel. Muriel’s mother begins to ask her if her husband has started acting weird yet. She also insists for her to come back home. Her mother even told her she shouldn’t get in a car while he is driving. Muriel’s mother explains that he has a psychiatrist and he says that Seymour can lose control of himself. After Muriel’s mother informed her of this, Muriel explains that there is a good psychiatrist at the hotel. Muriel’s mother questioned Seymour’s behavior alone on the beach. While Seymour was on the beach he was with a girl named Sybil. He told her that they would look for bananafish. He described bananafish as a fish that goes into a hole and eats many bananas. He says the fish get so fat that they can’t leave the hole and they die. He went in the water and made comments about how she looked in a bathing suit. Sybil was concerned about Seymour sitting next to a girl named Sharon. She told him not to sit next to her anymore. Seymour kissed Sybil’s foot. He pushed her in a float to shore and she ran off. Seymour went back to the hotel and ran into a woman who he claimed was staring at his feet. He asked the woman why she was staring and she too walked away from Seymour. Once he got in the hotel, Muriel was asleep. He went into a suitcase and took out a gun. He looked at Muriel and then shot himself in the temple. Muriel