American Pastoral

Swede levov's double life is constituted of his external "mask" and his internal psychology. at what moments in the text does that mask slip?

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I can think of three occasions:

1) When he kisses his daughter when she's a young girl on their way back from vacation.

2) When he vomits on her when he discovers her living in Newark as a Jain.

3) When she confronts Sheila about her harboring his daughter after the bomb in Dawn's study.