Richard J. Fein (essay date Fall 1984)
SOURCE: "Fear, Fatherhood, and Desire in Call It Sleep," in Yiddish, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall, 1984, pp. 49-54.
[In the following essay, Fein discusses David Schearl's enmity with his father in Roth's Call It Sleep.]
Call It Sleep is a classic portrayal of the Americanized son who pits himself against the unyielding immigrant father. In an orthodox but dramatic Freudian fashion that never succumbs to a mechanical pattern (and is as moving as Lawrence's rendition of this conflict in Sons and...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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