Re: BANANAFISH digest 251

eryk charles arthur salvaggio (ecs1@keene.edu)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:43:41 -0500 (EST) 

>>I.E.: He put the gun to his head because he thought he was too perfect,<<

You've been getting angry lately, Malcs, but nonetheless, I have to 
disagree. He put the gun at his head because the world was too perfect. 
If you refer to the last post: The world is made for Muriel, not Seymour. 
And while taking the active stance against suicide is understandable, the 
declaration of suicide as "selfish" is bullshit. I'm all for the 
celebration of existance and all; but some aren't. The point is, if you 
aren't going to be alive, you may as well be dead. And Seymour couldn't 
ever "live." Because for Seymour to ever become a Muriel it would take 
massive amounts of Opium Cigarettes and Scotch. As a matter of principle, 
Seymour Glass was better off dead. The world, as you may have noticed, 
consists of the following proportion: One Seer to every combined Muriel, 
Ms Fedder, Lane, Woman in the elevator, Cybil's mother. Who, do you 
think, is meant to exist? He either dies on this level and moves on to 
Teddy's "Place where everything is with god" oer stays here and watches 
everything else drip of god, while trying to kill off what he can see. 


>>just like he threw something at that girl because he thought she was too
perfect, as if he is some kind of arbiter of what is or is not perfect or
too perfect.<<

I think Seymour just knew when to let the grasshopper go, but was too 
attatched to the beauty of the grasshopper when he was 12 to ever be able 
to. And rather than let it go, he allowed teh grasshopper to let go of him.
(sorry for being so self-referential to my previous post.)

>>Therefore, his smug arrogance denied his perfection and his
momentary lapse into oblivious lack of concern for his family (and anyone
else he ever touched in his life) (i.e. suicide) pretty much negates
whatever level of perfection he believed he had attained. Or perhaps it
was just his own quaint way of saying "Heh. Guess I'm just a 
bananafish."  <<

Or maybe it was his way of saying that becoming a bananfish was 
inevitable at the place he was in his life.

-ecas

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