Ms. Rinaldi American Lit. 2x Literary Analysis #3: DUE MAY 17thAnalysis of a 20th Century American Novel
You may choose any of the novels below. You will read the novel, and write an analysis of some aspect of the novel itself. I will be happy to help you come up with a thesis once you have chosen a novel. As always, first drafts are greatly encouraged, and I will be happy to correct any and all drafts that you hand in to me ahead of time. NOVELS: All of these novels should be fairly easy to find. I will be happy to loan any that I own, the school library will have many of them, the public library should have all of them, and as classics, they are still available in bookstores. If you have your heart set on a novel that is not listed, see me for approval. A Light in August William FaulknerThe Age of Innocence Edith Wharton All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren The Assistant Bernard Malamud An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Beloved Toni Morrison Black Boy Richard Wright Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Chosen Chaim Potok The Color Purple Alice Walker East of Eden John Steinbeck Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson The Fountainhead Ayn Rand For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene In Cold Blood Truman Capote The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Jungle Upton Sinclair The Lilies of the Field William Barrett Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe Main Street Sinclair Lewis The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers My Antonia Willa Cather The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer Native Son Richard Wright On the Road Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth Portrait of a Lady Henry James Rabbit, Run John Updike Ragtime E. L. Doctorow Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Sophie’s Choice William Styron The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald The Wings of the Dove Henry James |