Rabbit at Rest | Ideas for Group Discussions
Questions about the character of Harry Angstrom are likely to dominate any discussion of Rabbit at Rest. Critics have also debated Updike's vision of America in this novel, and whether he brings the Rabbit series to any reasonable or fitting conclusion.
1. How does Updike develop the character of Angstrom in this final volume of the Rabbit series? Are there important changes from his earlier incarnations?
2. Updike admits that Rabbit at Rest is "a depressed book about a depressed man." How can readers defend the novel against such charges by its author?
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