Bananafish

POINT OF VIEW “ A GREAT DAY FOR BANANAFISH “

By J. D. Salinger

Third Person (Omniscient)       

The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. If you look only at the text of "Bananafish," you see an omniscient third person narrator. It might as will be a fly on the wall telling the story. The narrator doesn't know anything about these characters other than what he sees. Notice that the narrator never tells us that Seymour just came back from the war. Instead, he observes Muriel and her mother discussing the fact that Seymour just came back from the war. Of course Seymour getting stress from the war until he shot himself with a gun. From the symbol of “Bananafish” itself we know that the bananafish prefer to Seymour. Why? You’ll find out the answer and killed your curiosity. So, just read it ! Recommended for you J