Literary Precedents for Sophie's Choice

This Study Guide consists of approximately 80 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Sophie's Choice.

Literary Precedents for Sophie's Choice

This Study Guide consists of approximately 80 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Sophie's Choice.
This section contains 69 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Sophie's Choice Study Guide

The second paragraph of Styron's novel mimics the opening of Melville's Moby Dick (1851): "Call me Stingo." In doing so Styron points to the confessional character of the novel and of his fiction in general and directs the reader toward a psychic journey and quest that propels so many great American novels such as Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (1852), and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925).

(read more)

This section contains 69 words
(approx. 1 page at 400 words per page)
Buy the Sophie's Choice Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
Sophie's Choice from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.