Seize the Day

Though the time span of this story is very short, and the setting very specific (both the time and place), it is clear that Saul Bellows is speaking a message through Seize the Day which is meant...

There is much in Bellow's work that represents what it means to be America. The title of "seizing the day" is a very American concept, as part of the supposed American dream is this idea of taking...

It seems to me the final scene of the work, where Tommy Wilhelm, openly cries at the funeral of an unknown man captures much of what has been transpiring within the main character. It seems to me...

This is a painful novel to read. I'm not sure the title is appropriate...it felt to me to be anything but a carpe diem philosophy. More like "Go With the Flow". Wilheim doesn't proact...

Before writing your thesis statement, you need to determine what will be the purpose of your essay. Ask yourself, "What will my essay set out to prove?" If your teacher has given specific...

In Saul Bellow's novella, Seize the Day, Wilhelm is a character in the midst of great struggle. Going through a mid-life crisis, he finds problems converging from all sides. These difficulties...

Saul Bellow's novella, Seize the Day, was originally printed in a collection that also contained two short stories and a play. The novella quickly earned the reputation of a piece of literature...

In Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, published in the 1950s, the characters in the story are living in a post-war society. They live in suburbia, where there is supposed to be a sense of conformity and...