perfect day for bananafish
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"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
The paassage in question presents an extract from J. D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". As it runs we encounter just a few characters: Mrs. Carpenter, her daughter Sybil and Seymour Glass. On reading the passage I tried to figure out who the protagonist is. I suppose, Sybil can be considered one. I see it in this way because this small young lady of not more than four and a half serves to convey the message (in my very personal and subjective vision), to link all the three characters of the passage under study and reveal her relations with them through communication and action.
First of all, via Sybil our attention is focused on the relations and feelings of the two Carpenters Mother and daughter. As the passage opens, we get a picture of a caring, devoted and affectionate Mummy who is determined to lavish care upon her fragile "lovely pussycat" by carefully rubbing the sun tan oil in her smooth skin and bringing her the olive from Martini, and no doubt, by calling the kid "pussycat"tenderly...