After being dunked in the water, a character claims to see one of these animals, which prompts another character to grab her foot and kiss it. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these aquatic animals that supposedly swim into holes and get fat off of a certain fruit. These animals title a short story that ends with Seymour Glass abruptly committing suicide.
ANSWER: bananafish [accept “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”; prompt on fish alone]
[10e] Seymour Glass appears in the short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” part of this author’s Nine Stories. He also wrote The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: J. D. Salinger [or Jerome David Salinger]
[10h] Nine Stories also contains this story, in which Eloise Wengler gets drunk with an old friend from college. The title of this story refers to a memory of Eloise spraining her ankle.
ANSWER: “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”
<Steven Yuan, Literature - American - Short Fiction> ~20679~ <Editor: Chandler West>