This paper examines J.D.Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Bananafish through the lens of Zen Buddhist philosophy,particularly focusing on the concepts of dualistic opposition and ego-attachment.Through close textual analy...This paper examines J.D.Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Bananafish through the lens of Zen Buddhist philosophy,particularly focusing on the concepts of dualistic opposition and ego-attachment.Through close textual analysis,the study demonstrates how protagonist Seymour Glass’s psychological trajectory embodies the Zen struggle to transcend conceptual dualities while simultaneously falling prey to spiritual ego-attachment.The paper argues that Seymour’s tragic suicide stems not from war trauma alone,but from his unrecognized attachment to his own detachment-a paradox that Salinger meticulously constructs through symbolic imagery and dialogic interplay with the child character Sybil.By situating the story within Salinger’s engagement with Zen thought and postwar American spiritual crises,this analysis reveals new dimensions of one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic short stories.展开更多
文摘This paper examines J.D.Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Bananafish through the lens of Zen Buddhist philosophy,particularly focusing on the concepts of dualistic opposition and ego-attachment.Through close textual analysis,the study demonstrates how protagonist Seymour Glass’s psychological trajectory embodies the Zen struggle to transcend conceptual dualities while simultaneously falling prey to spiritual ego-attachment.The paper argues that Seymour’s tragic suicide stems not from war trauma alone,but from his unrecognized attachment to his own detachment-a paradox that Salinger meticulously constructs through symbolic imagery and dialogic interplay with the child character Sybil.By situating the story within Salinger’s engagement with Zen thought and postwar American spiritual crises,this analysis reveals new dimensions of one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic short stories.
