ike this on purpose, beacuse it seems trippy and spontaneous, yet it works. the best passages in the book that showcase his fluid style is when he describes rabbit and ruth's first sexual encounter and later, when janice goes on a drunken bender. it's not the brady bunch, you'll either love it or hate it. i don't think updike really wanted anyone to love rabbit, but wanted to show what happens when people live their lives for others and not for themselves.Has life ever seemed to much for you? Do you sometimes just want get away from it all? Well, here is a man that does it all for you, Mr. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. He is the man for running away from just about anything that is a conflict for him. Updike investigates this unfortunate soul of the suburban middle-class with the use of many similes, metaphors, motifs, and imagery. In "Rabbit, Run," John Updike's simple language brings reality to the central character of Harry and his boredom and disgust with his present life. In his early years at Mt. Judge High School, Harry was the star basketball player and this game was his life. In the beginning scene of the novel, Rabbit tries to recapture his ex-hero illusion of himself as a basketball star by playing basketball with a group of teenagers on the court. In this scene, we get a taste of Updike's use of rabbit imagery to enhance the rabbit qualities of Harry. When he arrives home, he regains the sour reality of his unfulfilled marriage, and his animal instinct tells him to flee. Like an animal, he can be gentle, but when he goes off on his own, he is the cause of all problems. In fleeing from his home, he experiences marital infidelity (a cental theme of many of Updike's books), the death of his baby, and ends up not a born-again-hero, but a man fleeing in panic from the realities of life. The quest motif is an important part of the novel in that Harry escapes from the imperfections in his life in search for a higher purpose. Because he ...
