The little boy who comes to the library every day in "Goodbye, Columbus" spends his time looking only at a book of paintings of native women in Tahiti by Paul Gauguin. Roth uses the imagery of the paintings to symbolize a world of escapist fantasy. Find a book of paintings by Gauguin. In what ways are these paintings especially suited to the story's theme of fantasy and escapism?
The novella "Goodbye, Columbus" was made into a movie by the same title in 1969. Watch the movie and compare and contrast the ways in which the themes of the.....
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