Analysis Of Feminism, Existentialism And Post-Colonialism

Analysis of Feminism, Existentialism and Post-colonialism 2 Introduction:
The report consists of five parts. The first part is feminism by analyzing the story of “A good man is hard to find”, this part will mainly focus on the characters’ features and their behaviors as well as their change to support my points. The second part is about Existentialism, through analyzing the symbols and the theme of the story “A perfect day for bananafish” to find their underlying meaning. The third part is analyzing “A good man is hard to find” as well, and it’s mood to support the theory of Post-colonialism. And the next is conclusion and reference.
Analysis of Feminism, Existentialism and Post-colonialism 3 Feminism —— A good man is hard to find
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His family members are afraid of his strange behaviors and want to avoid him rather than accepting his behaviors and helping him integrate to the society. Then they discuss clothing and other women, Muriel and her parents symbolize the secular people in this adult society which surround by the endless desires, the narrow, shallow inner world with prejudice against others. According to Fabio Furukawa (2015), Sybil is a child, her world should be pure, this is what Seymour wants, but Sybil saw six bananafishes, which means the children will grow up, and finally they will generate desire and jealousy to become bonanafish. The banana hole is a symbol of the adult world, and bananafishes symbolize the people who are controlled by the greed and endless desires (banana fever). These people’s life is pursuing their desires until they die. What’s more, Seymour’s bare feet is a symbol of unbound life, he was angry when he felt the sight came from others, because he doesn’t wear shoes which is a strange behavior in adult world, and it is hard to be accepted by adult world same as unbound life is hard to be