Brockmann, Charles B. "In the Shadow of the Tree." Carolina Quarterly 2 (1950): 41-46. Brockmann elaborates on the symbol of the tree in the novel.
Gelfant, Blanche Housman. The American City Novel Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. Contains a brief description of the urban experience as depicted in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Prescott, Orville. In My Opinion. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952. Contains an analysis of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Prescott was probably the most enthusiastic and powerful of the critics examining the novel when it first came.....
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