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When the 28-year-old Salinger submitted the manuscript to The New Yorker in January 1947, titled "The Bananafish", [2] its arresting dialogue and precise style [3] were read with interest by fiction editor William Maxwell and his staff, though the point of the story, in this original version, was considered incomprehensible.
Bananafish or banana fish may refer to: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", a short story by J. D. Salinger; Banana Fish, a manga series by Akimi Yoshida; Bananafish Magazine, an underground culture magazine
"Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon.
Symbols can be many things, including physical objects and abstract concepts. Often, the reader will interpret symbols together for a prediction as well as acknowledging their individual meanings. [7] Symbol interpretation can be drawn from history, statistics, pop culture references, and often nature or how we interact with the world.
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[20] [21] [22] The book was later included as part of the Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, [23] [24] and a version of the story it contains is summarized in Surah 37:139-148 of the Quran. [25] Early Christians used the ichthys, a symbol of a fish, to represent Jesus, [19] though the precise reasons for this are not fully known. [26]
New York City in the 1980s, the primary setting of the series. Banana Fish is set in the United States during the mid-1980s, primarily in New York City. Seventeen-year-old street gang leader Ash Lynx cares for his older brother Griffin, a Vietnam War veteran left in a vegetative state following a traumatic combat incident in which he fired on his own squadron and uttered the words "banana fish".
The younger brother of Alexis. He defied his brother's wishes to destroy banana fish and continues to develop and weaponize the drug for the Corsican mob into his adulthood. As a doctor during the Vietnam War, he tested banana fish on unknowing soldiers, including Griffin. Mannerheim (マナーハイム, Manāhaimu) Voiced by: Yōji Ueda [6]