47 pages • 1 hour read
Portnoy's Complaint
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969
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Essay Topics
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How does Alex’s Jewish identity develop over the course of the novel? How does it become such an obsession?
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In what ways does the symbolic meaning of genitalia change or evolve over the course of the novel?
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Who has the bigger influence on the development of Alex’s anxieties: his mother or his father?
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