A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THOMAS WOLFE’S FICTION: “LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL”

Abstract

A writer of great reputation and recognition, presenting sound dramatic and narrative works, rich in theme, tightly controlled, often with an objective point of view. It vividly reflects his first and best novel, Look Homeward, Angel, which, like Woolf’s best novel, deals with the plight of small-town American life, particularly the strain of "loneliness" in the character of the novel’s protagonist, Eugene Gant. Dealing with life’s problems, trying to avoid feelings of loneliness, and trying to show "Look Home," Angel demonstrates Woolf’s rhetorical techniques to describe the feelings and ideas of a tender youth.