Rabbit, Run | The Trouble with Harry
In the following review of Rabbit at Rest, Lee analyzes the character of Rabbit Angstrom as presented by Updike through the four "Rabbit" novels.
When Rabbit at Rest was recently published in Britain, John Updike made an appearance on television. Smiling urbanely in a solid tweed jacket, and looking like a priest disguised as a banker, he seemed to identify uncomplicatedly with Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as a "good person"—"good enough for me to like him." In Rabbit, Run, we were told, he acted out Updike's unfulfilled desire to have been a six-foot-three basketball hero. In Rabbit Redux, he reflected Updike's own "conflicted" conservatism. In Rabbit is Rich, his own happiness. In Rabbit...
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