Timeline | Characters
Chris Hughes is the bildungsroman hero of the story. In the beginning, he is a pampered and sheltered American intellectual, in a sense a victim of a leisure-oriented society, who is conservative and most often described as being "anxious" about the situations he finds himself in—in other words, afflicted by a postmodern anxiety of influence and malaise. He is naive and underdeveloped as a person because of the loss of his parents, and because he has spent all of his time with books, studies the history of experience rather than experiencing life for himself. When caught in...
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