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Thursday, September 18, 2014
In A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D Salinger, I am going to prove to you that Seymour kills himself because he realized that there is nobody for him and he is all alone in both realities. When Seymour's wife Muriel doesn't read the german poetry book he sends her, he realizes that there is nobody for him in the harsh reality. Then, when Seymour goes to the beach and meets someone he believes will understand him, he finally realizes that there is nobody for him on the outside either which eventually makes him kill himself.
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I agree with your assertion that a great factor to Seymour's decision to take his life was because he felt isolated and all alone. Also that his wife failing to acknowledge him caused him to feel that their was nobody in society that would understand him, except Sybil who abandoned him on the beach.
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