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Here, Seymour begins to explain the titular bananafish to Sybil as they wade out into the ocean. As the story goes, bananafish look like normal fish, but what differentiates them is that they swim into holes full of bananas. Once inside the hole, a bananafish will so thoroughly gorge themselves on bananas that they quickly grow too fat to swim back out of the hole, at which point they die of the so-called banana fever. It’s significant that, in this passage, Seymour first introduces the made-up bananafish as being “peculiar” in their habits and leading a “tragic life,” as it…