Hello, Anna, I believe, was interested in why Seymour committed suicide. One nice place to start might be Matt Kuzosko's essay on the subject on Sunny's (Sundeep Dougal's) web page. The URL is: http://members.tripod.com/~SundeepDougal/faq.html#matt This gets you directly to the section of the faq dealing with Seymour's suicide. It contains one of the interesting explanations which have been offered. Sunny's pages are themselves wonderfully interesting, and can be reached from the page listed above (at the bottom). You might like to start from Stephen Foskett's bananafish home page: http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/jds/online/bananafish.html from which you can reach Sunny's pages and a whole lot more. Another option might be to search the bananafish archive starting from http://www.nyu.edu/acf/staff/oconnort/JDS/ if you select your search keywords carefully, you might have some success, though there will probably be a large number of "hits". all the best, Mattis