In this chapter, I here analyze economic aspects of Lee Child’s novel Tripwire. Here, I analyze Jack Reacher and other major characters. This thesis deals with American lifestyle and culture which offers different perspective to the field of literature. The perspective of my analysis is economic contract theory or in another word “Behavioral Economics”. I also focus on exploring evils of capitalism by discussing the ideology of “Economic Man”. Behavior of an individual is always mapped through social coordinates (Parson).Therefore, this theory deals with social relationships along with American culture.
The stoics believe that each man’s reason is an adequate guide to his conduct. The other is the principle which appeared toward the end of the sixteenth century that the free society is formed in voluntary association. This principle is usually called “Contract Theory”. William D. Grampp discusses about two major institutions which came out of a liberal society. The first institution is the representative government and second one is free market (Grampp). Jack Reacher is firstly associated with the representative government and later after resigning the job of army policeman he becomes associated with free market. While Reacher was associated with army, he was time …show more content…
According to Megan Abbot, the pulp fiction critic, “consumerist, nuclear family focused America of the post-World War I period by taking a less socially acceptable position of unmarried, childless loner with no social ties, no community responsibilities”(15). In Althusser’s theory of fantasy agency, the individual’s need to feel free from ideological constraints is central in the relationship between societal institutions and individuals. The fantasy of being autonomous subject is promoted by societal institutions
The stoics believe that each man’s reason is an adequate guide to his conduct. The other is the principle which appeared toward the end of the sixteenth century that the free society is formed in voluntary association. This principle is usually called “Contract Theory”. William D. Grampp discusses about two major institutions which came out of a liberal society. The first institution is the representative government and second one is free market (Grampp). Jack Reacher is firstly associated with the representative government and later after resigning the job of army policeman he becomes associated with free market. While Reacher was associated with army, he was time …show more content…
According to Megan Abbot, the pulp fiction critic, “consumerist, nuclear family focused America of the post-World War I period by taking a less socially acceptable position of unmarried, childless loner with no social ties, no community responsibilities”(15). In Althusser’s theory of fantasy agency, the individual’s need to feel free from ideological constraints is central in the relationship between societal institutions and individuals. The fantasy of being autonomous subject is promoted by societal institutions