Her mother is also concerned about Seymour’s driving when it comes to the trees, due to the fact that he crashed their car while going through a momentary relapse produced by his post-traumatic stress disorder (Salinger, 3). I think she finds this very annoying, and she even states,”Mother, I’m not afraid of Seymour” (Salinger, 6). However, I think her parents have a good reason to be concerned, especially when Muriel tells her parents that a psychiatrist in the hotel questioned right away whether or not Seymour was ill. Her mother tells Muriel on the phone that her and her father are concerned with Seymour losing control of himself and harming Muriel. Muriel is annoyed with her mother, because she appears to be too involved in Muriel’s personal affairs. The pressures placed onto couples who are separated by war force an extremely difficult situation onto most relationships, which all the more shows how Muriel’s dedication to Seymour is genuine.
Mother talks about how unique it was that Muriel waited for Seymour to return from the war while others did not wait for their husbands (Salinger, 5). I perceived this as showing that she truly cares for Seymour and will go to the extreme measure of learning to speak German just to satisfy him. Seymour probably bought this German book while he was away for World War II, thus explaining why it is written in German. Muriel asks her mother where the book of poems that Seymour bought her is, and tells her mother that she wants to learn German so she could read the book. However, other readers might think that she just sidelines him and simply waits for him to commit suicide, because she knows it is inevitable. For instance, while Seymour wanders off onto the beach by himself, after being traumatised by the war, Muriel just sits in her room and paints her nails. Muriel is so used to living without inter-relationship complications, because Seymour has been gone, that she continues to do so while she should actually be making an attempt to spend more time with Seymour. While speaking to her mother on the phone, Muriel turns the phone away from her face, which indicates annoyance toward her mother. Then, by not rushing to the phone, Muriel gives the nuanced impression of being pretentious, as if her precious time placed everyone at the obedience of her command. They look as if they drove down in a truck” (Salinger, 5).
You should see what sits next to us in the dining room at the next table. Also, Muriels states, “The people are awful this year. It is clearly apparent that Muriel is abnormally mature through the way she acts while the phone is ringing, and how she and her mother discuss social matters. In the beginning of the story, Muriel receives an expected phone call from her mother. We can infer from the nickname that Seymour gives Muriel, “Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948”, the time in which this story occurs. It all starts in a resort hotel in Florida. Applying this theory will allow me to show how this story requires readers’ minds to interpret what is going on in the story, and to express how I connected with the details and events that occurred. Therefore, I have chosen to apply the reader response theory to “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.
Literary texts,” according to Tyson’s Critical Theory Today (169). “As its name implies, reader‑response criticism focuses on readers’ responses to Reader Response Theory A Perfect Day for Bananafish
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