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.

Nobody truly occupies a station in life any more. There are mostly people who feel that they occupy the place that belongs to another by rights. There are displaced persons everywhere.

Earl Rovit in his article on Saul Bellow in American Writers determines that these words spoken by Eugene Henderson in Bellow’s highly acclaimed novel, Henderson the Rain King, ‘‘could have been spoken by almost any of Bellow’s characters, or, for...

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