Key Lines

In the story Perfect Day for a bannafish, a key line was "Goodbye" said Sybil, and ran without regret in the direction of the hotel. (pg 25)
Why I think this is a key line in the story is because this may have been the point where Seymour was pushed over edge and shot himself. Throughout the story Seymour is described as staying outside the lines, for example when Muriel and her mother talk about his tendency to drive outside the white line and very close to the trees. Another example is described when Sybil runs to him from the hotel and she has to run a quarter mile down the beach far from where a hotel residence would have been. Like Seymour, in society Sybil is almost alone which is showed when her mother says go and play now and she leaves her alone to go have a drink with her friend. During the story Seymour seems to have a strong attachment to Sybil despite her being very young. He sees her as the only person wanting to understand him and she is just trying to look for someone to be with her because her parents are not.  However that is why when Sybil leaves without regret it seems to him that she has left him for society, but it may have just been that she left him for some other reason without knowing what she was doing. This then leads to Seymour once again believing that he is alone and no one wants to understand and get him so he decides to kill himself.