A Perfect Day for Bananafish

A young man, recently returned from the Army goes to Florida with his wife. His wife has a telephone conversation with her mother during which the mother speaks about the young man as though he were mentally deranged but the girl reassures her that she is not afraid. The husband, on the beach, goes for a dip in the ocean with a small girl, who is a guest at the hotel. He seems to get along perfectly with the child. When he gets back to his hotel room, where his wife is asleep, he calmly pulls out a gun and shoots himself.

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