American novels

Steinbeck’s weapon is the written word and in his famous novel Of Mice and Men, he ventures to change the ideas and opinions of his readers. Of Mice and Men is set in 1930’s America during the Great Depression. Even though there are some instances in the novel where Steinbeck seems to mirror the attitudes of the past, there also are several instances where the author he displays the need for societal change. He uses the characters in the novel, such as Lennie, to demonstrate the mistreatment of…

The novel The Girls from Overseas, deals with the five foreign women married to Indian men and their state of alienation in alien country. The novel puts the five protagonists in cross culture scenario. ‘It was impossible to escape from one’s background’ Louise is convinced of it. Five years in India, five years of being married to an Indian, and still she is herself, alien, separate, linked to the slenderest of filaments to her husband, Dinesh, who watched her dress with an absent minded…

in the 1700’s and the US productivity was creeping up towards a very important event; the beginning of the industrial revolution. Just as Robinson Crusoe served to dissuade skilled laborers away from an occupation at sea, TNAGP serves to show the American people the horrors of a life at sea. Through this abhorrent narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’s life at sea you can see why the book does a good job at keeping would-be sea-farers on solid ground. This all means that the US can keep its skilled…

The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan. It was published in 1989 and was her first novel that she ever released. The novel tells the story of four immigrant women from China moving to the United States and their stories with their four American-born daughters. It is said to be partially inspired by her own relationships with her mother. This book is one of those books that seems like anyone can relate to it in some way. This book includes so many different themes and it hits them…

published in 1983, is deeply rooted in Latin American culture in, specifically highlighting the presence of social status and machismo. Being a central part of the work, these two aspects of Latin American culture are emphasized through the symbolism of knives. Gabriel Garcia Marquez includes this symbol to challenge traditional ideologies of social status and machismo in Latin American culture. The reader comes to a greater knowledge of Latin American culture through this symbol and the social…

profound shaping factor in the ultimate course of their lives. In Robert Penn Warren’s classic novel, All the King’s Men, the central characters of the novel all have to deal with the consequences…

quote is showing Yossarian and Dunbar mocking the Texan for his extreme patriotism. The American lifestyle is what they are fighting to protect. They demonstrate that it is selfish and senseless for them to fight for more material wealth, then those who already have a lot of material wealth, for their own benefit. This quote is highlighting one of the novel’s themes, power. This theme is important to the novel because, the officers have no compassion for human life or any sense of morality and…

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, Gogol. Socio-Psychological dynamics of cultural disparities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s namesake. Jhumpa Lahiri, who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000 for her Interpreter of Maladies, is a brilliant novelist. Her first novel The Namesake forms the basis of the present study. Lahiri has the first-hand experience to authentically portray the diasporic experience of the…

confinement and loneliness are major themes within Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Without isolation, confinement and loneliness, the novels would have an entirely different consequences and outcome. With the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper and Lennie from Of Mice and Men being isolated in the setting of the novels, there is no escape from achieving a positive resolution. Dialogue shows the confinement of Lennie’s and the narrator’s mental capacities, as well as…

was published. Fitzgerald had already been successful with his The Great Gatsby. Set mostly in Southern France and Switzerland, “the novel tells the story of what happens when the extremes of love, madness, and ambition play out against a high-glamour backdrop, in a physical and psychological landscape torn apart by World War I” (Shmoop, Tender is the Night). The novel is almost a perfect parallel of Fitzgerald’s life when he was writing it. He and his wife were going through marital troubles…