When comparing CITR and A Perfect Day for Bananafish, I noticed that the characters seemed to have a stronger connection in CITR. I'm thinking that it may supposed to have been this way though. In CITR, I think that Holden had a strong emotional connection towards everyone he met. The minute he started talking to them, he knew what he thought of them and how to talk to them. I think that in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" the characters really had no emotional connection what-so-ever. The one exception is the little girl and the guy that committed suicide. Other than those two, the only connection were stated. They weren't described or felt.
If I hadn't known that J.D. Salinger was the author of both of these stories, I wouldn't have known that they were written by the same person. In CITR, everything seemed so descriptive and real, you could relate tot he emotions being discussed. But in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", it was blunt and almost in your face. It was a bit sudden. I feel that there are more differences between these two stories than similarities. I found it difficult to think of these two stories as similar.
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