Seymour Glass, See More Glass

I wanted to make a new post because something from "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" caught my eye, and no one mentioned it in class.

On page 14, Sybil is introduced. "'See more glass,' said Sybil Carpenter, who was staying at the hotel with her mother. 'Did you see more glass?'" (14) We all know that Sybil wanted to see Seymour Glass, and that even though the question above isn't what Sybil meant to say, it still makes sense as a stand alone sentence.  However, if you spell Seymour's name correctly, the question becomes, "Did you Seymour Glass?"  It doesn't make any sense as there is a missing verb.  I thought the way Salinger wrote this question was interesting.  Once again, the author shows the naivety and innocence of Sybil.  For Seymour, the sentence can refer to him being a piece of glass.  Glass is fragile, much like Seymour's mental state.

Also, I think it interesting that Seymour was on a beach, which is the place a person would go to find sea glass.  Seymour is like a broken piece of sea glass because he's broken (, figuratively,) and he recently came back from the war just as a broken piece of sea glass gets washed ashore.  (Both Seymour and the sea glass arrive in different places where they aren't in their best state.)