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Subtexts of Salinger's 'A perfect day for a Bananafish' Jerome David Salinger is a character who has made himself one with many idiosyncrasies. He has vast and varied; ideas, thought and beliefs throughout his short stories and novels. These ideas have been weaved; cleverly into the short story that is, 'A perfect day for a Bananafish.' These thoughts which are shrouded in darkness and secrecy in the text make short appearances (as did Salinger's life), and can be seen most clearly on line one, page eleven represents soldiers of war that are sent into the frontline. 'They swim into a hole where there are lots of bananas.' Bananas may be used by Salinger to depict the shape of a gun, and as we know from the short story Seymour took part in the war and came back a different man. 'But once they get in they...

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