In Cain's best fiction, aesthetic distance is achieved and sustained partly because of his obsessively objective, neutral, dispassionate attitude toward the basic elements of his novels. His techniques forcibly, deliberately, and continually turn us back to the pure experience itself. (p. 61)
[In Serenade] Cain shows how one man seizes the American dream of success and how it conflicts with his dream of the primitive woman. (p. 63)
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