Dec 30, 2009

The Accidental Tourist | Related Titles

Themes in The Accidental Tourist focus on the danger of physical and emotional isolation. Similar concerns appear in Celestial Navigation, where Jeremy Pauling departs briefly from his agoraphobic life lived within the confines of one house.

Jeremy is an extreme case, an artist who is only comfortable in the home where he grew up. Marrying Mary and even fathering children is only a brief interlude in his isolation. Ultimately he chooses to return to that isolation and loses his wife. Macon, on the other hand, learns that isolation is stultifying and lack of human...