J.D. Salinger wrote the Catcher and the Rye as well as A Perfect Day for Bananafish; the main characters both want to preserve innocence for themselves and for the people around them. Innocence according to the Webster's Dictionary, is, "The quality of innocent naïveté and being free from sin or moral wrong; or lacking a knowledge of evil." This innocence is what children have and what adults …showed first 75 words of 1022 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1022 total…her, "Those horrible things he said to granny about her plans for passing away." He just came back from war and he knows that people are going to die, he is more upfront about it then other people who inch around the topic. In the story you see him dealing with these emotions, of guilt and remorse. The story ended on a very sad note, Seymour "fired a bullet through his right temple. (Salinger, p.18)"