Seymour Glass, who commits suicide in the story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," is precocious and winsome, even as he's about to blow his brains out.

The story is presented in the form of a letter from camp written by a seven-year-old Seymour Glass (the main character of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish").

I am between things neither Sybil Carpenter nor Seymour Glass, neither child nor adult, I have powers of seeing and knowing, but no ability to take action.

Seymour Glass, sitting on one twin bed while his wife Muriel sleeps on the other.

Seymour Glass firing a single shot into his brain, as terrifying now as it was in 1948, and honestly it makes perfect sense.

His name is Ray Ford, twice winner of a prestigious fellowship and an instructor at Columbia University (the same college Salinger's Seymour Glass teaches at).

The story is an enigmatic examination of a young married couple, Muriel and Seymour Glass, while on vacation in Florida.

Downtown shopping in Woodmere is comprised of about 125 stores, said Seymour Glass, president of the Woodmere Merchants Association.

The New Yorker story, a novella really, takes the form of a nearly interminable letter ostensibly written from summer camp by the 7-year-old Seymour Glass.

However, Salinger published only one other story after that: "Hapworth 16, 1924", a novella in the form of a long letter from seven-year-old Seymour Glass while at summer camp.