End Zone (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Don DeLillo
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: c. 1970
- Setting: Western Texas
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Texas
Characters Discussed
Gary Harkness, a star halfback for Logos College in western Texas. The talented Gary, in his early twenties, goes to Logos College after personal anxieties had destroyed his athletic career at Syracuse, Pennsylvania State, Miami, and Michigan State universities. He seems cursed by a terminal case of spiritual sloth generated by his sense of the world’s meaninglessness, a despair that is intensified by his preoccupation at Logos with vivid hallucinations of nuclear catastrophe. Only in the structured patterns enacted on the football field does he find any...
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