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The psychiatrist is a resort guest who asks Muriel if Seymour is sick. The story heavily implies that this is because of Seymour’s strange behavior, but Muriel assumes that the psychiatrist is referring to Seymour’s pale complexion. When recounting this conversation to her mother on the phone, Muriel can’t remember much of what the psychiatrist said about Seymour’s condition because she was distracted by the psychiatrist’s wife’s ugly dress.
The Psychiatrist Quotes in A Perfect Day for Bananafish
The A Perfect Day for Bananafish quotes below are all either spoken by The Psychiatrist or refer to The Psychiatrist. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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A Perfect Day for Bananafish Quotes
“[…] he asked me if Seymour’s been sick or something, So I said—”
“Why’d he ask that?”
“I don’t know, Mother. I guess because he’s so pale and all,” said the girl. “Anyway, […] His wife was horrible. You remember that awful dinner dress you saw in Bonwit’s window? The one you said you’d have to have a tiny, tiny—”
“The green?”
“She had it on. And all hips. […]”
“What’d he say though? The doctor.”
“Oh. Well, nothing much, really. I mean we were in the bar and all. It was terribly noisy.”
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The Psychiatrist Character Timeline in A Perfect Day for Bananafish
The timeline below shows where the character The Psychiatrist appears in A Perfect Day for Bananafish. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Muriel says that there’s a psychiatrist staying at her hotel, though she struggles to remember his name. Muriel’s mother implores her...
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Shifting the conversation to the psychiatrist’s wife, Muriel talks at length about the woman’s figure and horrible dress. Once again, Muriel’s...
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