The Day of the Locust | Social Concerns
In Hollywood as a screenwriter, West saw another embodiment of the popular hope and disillusion he had depicted in Miss Lonelyhearts. Added to the corruption of the moviemakers were the pains of those "spectators" drawn to the glamorous, sexual dreams of Hollywood's escapist paradise. These anonymous ordinary people with no chance of fulfilling their wishes seemed increasingly desperate and full of hatred. West drew from these cheated buyers and sellers of dreams for his novel, virtually ignoring the happy, wealthy, and successful. These failing cultists, West said, "can be...
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