Rumble; Memos from Purgatory | Characters
In Rumble the conceptions of the characters are limited, and they lack the kind of psychological conflicts which create real empathy in the reader. Although Ellison may have intended the novel as a criticism of the social conditions which produce juvenile delinquents, the characters are too one-dimensional to evoke much sympathy.
Subsequently, however, Ellison tries to rework the same material in the fictionalized autobiography, Memos from Purgatory. And here his main problem as a writer emerges: He wants to write social criticism and fiction at the same time....
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