Before we meet Seymour, we hear that there's something wrong with him. Salinger uses Muriel's conversation with her mother to preface Seymour's interaction with Sybil. We have to do a pretty carefu...

Sybil is a young girl vacationing on Florida with her mother. We can guess that her age is somewhere around four. Salinger tells us she's wearing a two-piece bathing suit, "one piece of which she w...

Muriel is Seymour's young wife. At first, it might be difficult to see why a man like Seymour is married to a woman like Muriel. He's spiritual and introspective; she's materialistic and social. He...