Blog #1: Seymour and the Banana fish

Seymour is similar to the Banana fish in many ways. Seymour says to Sybil that a bananafish is a normal fish, until they swim into a banana hole and they gorge themselves on bananas. Then they become to fat and they then die. He is similar to this because he came back from war and he is now a totally different person. Muriel describes Seymour to her mother and mentally unstable, and incapable of functioning normally in a social environment. So just as the bananafish came out of the banana hole as fat, Seymour comes out of World War II as a different person who is socially awkward and mentally different. Also just as the bananafish dies eventually once they come out of the banana hole from being fat, Seymour also died from killing himself which I believe the reasoning behind this is from the after war effect on him. That is how Seymour is similar to the bananafish.