Bright Lights, Big City

This link below does a pretty good job of laying out the novel and even has some pictures to go along with the story. It would be helpful for your understanding of the text to take a few minutes to check it out:

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/brightpage.htm

This is a link to  New York magazine article that covers the NYC we see the character running through:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JrwBAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Prof. O'Connell

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Here is a rather dull and barebones analysis of what our story is about for Tuesday:

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a story about a lonely, but dignified older gentleman who, basically ,has insomnia and can't sleep. He is not like other men who go to bodegas and bars. He does not go to party or to meet women. He goes to escape the darkness and to have a drink. It is also mentioned in the story that he tried to kill himself, but was saved by his niece.

We will spend the class working together to fill in the what this above analysis left out...

Prof. O'Connell

Does The Misfit Have Grace?

What does it mean to have grace?
Are we born with it or can we acquire it?
Can a "villian" have grace?
These are some of the issues we will discuss on Thursday.

Here a few links on the story:

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/lewiss/Oconnor.htm

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/flannery-oconnors-good-man-hard-find-whos-real-misfit

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Concept-of-Grace-in-A-Goodman-is-Hard-to-Find

http://www.cord.edu/faculty/steinwan/nv13_pence.htm

Prof. O'Connell

Who is Holden Caufield?

Here is a link to a closer look at Holden Caufield as a character:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1621225/the_catcher_in_the_rye_holden_caulfield.html?cat=38

Here is a link to a case where an author tried to write an unauthorized sequel to the story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/books/17salinger.html

A blog about who Holden Caufield is:

http://tingram.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/the-catcher-in-the-rye-who-is-holden-caulfield/