Story connections

I find that there are many similarities between the bananafish story, uncle wiggly in connecticut, and the eskimo war story.

1. bananafish vs. uncle wiggly

In both stories, there is a woman who smokes a cigar and are only seen talking to other woman, in bananafish Muriel's mom and in uncle wiggly Mary Jane. In both stories, there is a young girl who imagines seeing people or fish and manages to draw the emotions out of one of the older, married. A man dies at or near the end of the books, Seymour and Jimmy Jimereeno. Both stories take place around the time of the war, and the woman are always talking in an enclosed room. The conflict in both stories is the fact that one of the woman does not think highly of the husband. The majority of the major points of the story revolve around a certain object, a banana fish and a glass, and are persistent throughout the majority of the story. There are also oddly specific details at points in the story, such as Eloise laughing from her diaphragm and Seymour shooting himself through his right temple. The older characters look back upon the times when they were young and wish that they could go back to the times when they were happiest.

2.uncle wiggly vs. eskimo war

In both stories, the older people smoke while the younger people don’t, and someone has a friend over. Part of the story focuses on the family of someone. Marriage is made a big deal of by the older people. The bulk of the story takes place in someone’s living room. Both stories have an odd tendency to constantly bring up a certain detail even though it is completely irrelevant to the story, such as glasses and drinks in uncle wiggly and the cut finger in the eskimo war. There are also mentions of people of the arts, actors and writers, mostly of writers and books however. In both stories, the main characters rapidly go through different moods based on scenarios.

3.eskimo war vs. bananafish

Both stories start off with two woman talking, but the majority of the story is about the conversation between the older man and the young woman. As the story progresses, a relationship builds between the man and woman, and in the end one of them changes. The woman expresses a level of ignorance towards the man’s situation. Ginnie at first insulted Selena’s brother when her sister was called a snob by him without hearing his side of the story, and Sybil doesn’t realize the significance of the bananafish for Seymour. The man constantly frets over something that seems small but is of greater importance to him than to his company. Both stories end quite abruptly as a result of the one character that changed and that one character proceeds to leave. There is an odd interest in animals, Seymour caring about the bananafish and Eric noticing how nice Ginnie’s camel hair coat is. The woman in the story tend to cross and uncross their legs when talking about things they are seemingly comfortable or uncomfortable talking about.