Violence In The Day Of The Locust

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Envision a trim and abstemious Jack Kerouac writing a novella about deranged circus freaks who have escaped an insane asylum, while at the same time venturing to retell The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway with cock fights instead of bull fights. Imagine also that Kerouac is funneling and transforming Fitzgerald's adoration of the glamorous life debasement into glamorous life infirmity, with an elephantine amount of exploitation, a smidgen of OCD, and ceaseless soap opera tirades. This presents a satisfactory picture of how The Day of the Locust feels to read. The Day of the Locust is frantically unorganized and has a predisposition towards violence. Faye is the book’s only genuinely abusive female character. It is disheartening to read the way she traumatizes Homer Simpson both physically and emotionally. However, her violence is passed down, intrinsic, an unavoidable component of her humanity, and yet another exhibition of violence in a book brimming with aggression. In fact, every deed in the book is a deed of violence. Affection is violence, vulnerability is violence, silence entails violence, impassivity is violence, Tod’s art is violence, caring is violence, benevolence is violence, …show more content…
A story climaxing in the literal trampling of the young child Adore. He was killed by Homer who was driven insane by the lack of Faye’s combative accompaniment and beyond any kind of responsible control. Faye was like a tornado of intrigue. She swept all of the male characters up in her winds of captivity, and threw them miles away when her funnel of enchantment dissipated. The characters Tod and Homer had invested far too much of their livelihood to possibly return to soundness of judgement. West accurately portrays the fallout of Stockholm Syndrome as Homer and Tod fall into a downward spiral of mental

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