J D Salinger's 9 Stories
J D Salinger's style is so unique and complex on "9 Stories". J D's stories deal with children in one way or another. Two of those stories are "A perfect day for a bananafish" and "For Esme with love and squalor." The main characters in both of these stories, Seymour and Sergeant X, have served in World War II, and the war has taken a great toll in their life. Their physiological well being is sacrificed and as a result they are no longer the same people they were once before. Both Seymour and Sergeant X feel alienated from the people in their life, the same people they had loved before the war. The isolation carries over into their lives, and it causes these men to search for new forms of comfort and security, in the respective forms of Sybil and Esme. In "A perfect day for a bananafish," Muriel and her husband Seymour have different perspectives of life. Muriel is a carefree and complacent person, while her husband is quite strange and slightly paranoid. His paranoia is illustrated when he looses it in the hotel elevator, "I have two norma
Seymour has no one who understands him, which causes his feeling of isolation. X, "I hope you return from the war with all your faculties intact. X's feeling of alienation, which is why she approaches him in the tearoom. l feet and I can't see the slightest God-damned reason anyone should stare at them. Seymour's relationship with Sybil is making up for Muriel's shortcomings. X feels comforted by Esme's presence along with the innocence of Charles, Esme's brother. Seymour is looking for the understanding of a child and the love of an adult. It's like she is his only connection to the real world, which is why he agrees to write her. X alive and the lack of is what ended it for Seymour. Sargent X has an interesting relationship with Esme in "ForEsme with love and squalor. Their personalities don't match anymore, if they ever did, and he is seeking some sort of understanding that he knows Muriel can not provide. In a time when X has nothing to relate to, Esme's friendship gives him the comfort and security to keep his faculties intact.
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