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Goodbye, Columbus: A Time of Values Revolution In 1959, the occidental societies were kind of cut between two cultures
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Kaven Morasse Glenn Gavin Pre-university long fiction B 603-BNC-LW October 7th, 2005 Goodbye, Columbus: A Time of Values Revolution In 1959, the occidental societies were kind of cut between two cultures. In fact, there was the old tradition of the past that had to be preserved for the "benefit" of the social order and everything else that was trying to emerge out of an ocean of restrictions. So at that time, a new novel that pretty well illustrated this reality came into existence: Goodbye Columbus from Philip Roth. This short book depicts the life of a young middle-class Jewish man, Neil Klugman, who falls in a "summer-love" with a rich upper-class Jewish girl, Brenda Patimkin. There relation is partly secret in the fact that everyone else, but themselves, think that they are just flirting together until the fatal moment. The truth is that both, Neil and Brenda, take pleasure in making...
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