Problematizing Familial Relationship: A Study of American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Sarojakanta Nayak

doi:10.24113/ijellh.v10i1.11238

Abstract

This study is an attempt to show the familial relationship and racial conflicts in Philip Roth’s novel, American Pastoral. The study mainly focuses on the treatment of family-relationship and racial conflicts. It intends to find out the way Roth has made an attempt to explore different facets of human relationship through this novel. Being a great artist with exceptional vision, Roth has harped upon some of the most important issues of human relationship. American society and Jewish identity always serve as the main subject matter of his writings. The prime concern of Philip Roth is to bring about reformation in American society in particular and the entire human relationship in general.

Highlights

Public and private life in America during the second half of the 20th century
Roth generalizes the tragedy of the common man or we can say the tragedy of America
American Pastoral has concerned with the protagonist named as Swede Levov, a high school star athlete in the world of Newark

Summary

Introduction

Public and private life in America during the second half of the 20th century. Roth realistically portrays the inner as well as outer experience of a man throughout his novels. In American Pastoral, the tragedy of the Swede is not self-made or self-invented. American Pastoral has concerned with the protagonist named as Swede Levov, a high school star athlete in the world of Newark.

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