Leaving the Yellow House | Essays and Criticism

  • The Dual Nature of Hattie Waggoner

    In the following essay, Korb explores the dual nature of Hattie Waggoner and other characters and elements of ‘‘Leaving the Yellow House.’’

  • Feelings of Displacement

    In the following essay, the author examines Bellow’s study in ‘‘Leaving the Yellow House’’ of how one woman copes with feelings of displacement.

  • A Perennial Survivor: Saul Bellow’s Heroine in the Desert

    In the following essay on ‘‘Leaving the Yellow House,’’ Lippit proposes that the character Hattie is the one exception to Bellows’s treatment of female characters in his fiction.