Analysis Of John Updike's Pigeon Feathers

In John Updike’s story, “Pigeon Feathers” the story exhibits the continuing strengths through a character named David, wrestling with tenet issues in a plain yet powerful language. Throughout David’s journey in his new found life he finds his spirituality with God is not quite founded as he was unsure of his beliefs. In "Pigeon Feathers” John Updike continuing strengths contribute through David’s story as from viewpoints that contribute to the reader’s mood, characterization, and a resolved complication within the ambiguous story. Updike underscores the movement of the plot and the motivational process of David’s mind with a series of images and reflections. David Kern's point of view within the story represents his outlook on what his new life has introduced to him as well as his loss of faith that has left a horror that he has been unable to escape from in the next difficult months ahead. Updike has successfully bonded the reader and the character’s outlook on his situation to create a relationship that allows the reader to feel the terrors that David is facing. An example, "David has had an exact vision of death, that has followed him everywhere, even when seeking help, nobody …show more content…
Updike enhances the story with an atmosphere that exists within the real world to create a novel that reflects the mood within the story to the reader. Throughout the complex story, David suffers from his new lifestyle and his loss faith of his mortality due to a discovery he should have never looked upon; he finds himself shrouded in a terror that will not leave which enhances the feeling of a horror able feeling. Until a shocking revelation occurs during a moment that reveals the existence of God that suddenly transforms David. Such great aspect of the mind of Updike imbedding a monumental moment into a character in a simplistic style only defines the conclusion of a