... : lack of family, rootlessness, nihilism, and alienation, being from somewhere else and being cut off from the past. It is the cyclical nature of the novel, heralded in the second epigraph (from Ecclesiastics): "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever . . . The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down . . . All the rivers run into the ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School