A Humoristic and Satirical Perspective to Jewish Classes in Goodbye, Colombus by Philip Roth
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Philip Roth having Jewish ethnicity is a distinguished and famous writer in American literature. In his first novella Goodbye, Colombus, containing five other short stories, there are numbers of Jewish characters from all classes. This diversity enables the author make a good humor and flippancy in the lower and upper classes or between each other. Neil Klugman who is both narrator and protagonist of the novella living in working class neighborhood falls in love with Brenda Patimkin, a college student from a wealthy family. Roth from Klugman’s point of view satirizes and humors Jews and their relationships between themselves and Gentiles. The author manages to lampoon his society and himself as a Jew of New Jersey. In this study, Roth’s first novella written in 1959, Goodbye, Colombus will be argued in terms of satirical and humoristic characteristics.
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