SOURCE: Alter, Iska. “The Natural, The Assistant, and American Materialism.” In The Good Man's Dilemma: Social Criticism in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud, pp. 1-26. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1981.
In the following essay, Alter examines the “democratic dilemma” in Malamud's fiction.
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