Just a Perfect Day

Abbie's Tree House ♦ 10 January , 2021 ♦ Leave a comment

I was young when I first read J.D. Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” and I remember being just completely blindsided by the ending. I’m pretty sure my mouth was literally hanging open. I was shocked, dazed, stunned.

I’m glad I read it when I was young. This older version of me would read it and think, “Well, life is like that sometimes.”

I wish I could still be shocked.

“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” is part of the compilation Nine Stories, available from the Electronic Library Project, HERE.