The Day of the Locust | Techniques
West's most obvious technique, as in Miss Lonelyhearts, is an intense unity of subject and effect. Over more than four drafts, clarifying the aspects of personality involved in the novel, he separated Tod from Claude as he had separated Shrike from Miss Lonelyhearts. By making Tod an artist, a needed commentator, West brought to bear a second art (which Miss Lonelyhearts lacked) to give a real base to the many rhetorics which confuse Hollywood's image. Again in The Day of the Locust, West satirizes human vice and folly with such biting vividness as to motivate...
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