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Jay McInerney

Having to discuss his dead mother with his visiting brother is what sparks memories that help the narrator deal with the loss. Forgetting her life and only remembering the details of her death is what effects the character so negatively. His mother and her innocence are symbolized as bread. McInerney uses fresh baked bread as a symbol of good in the novel. In a symbolic gestu!.
             re at the end of the book the narrator trades his sunglasses which he used to block out the light of day and in essence his real life, for some bread, a new beginning.
             The most interesting character found throughout the two novels is Connor McKnight. .
             Suffering from an unconscious desire for self-destruction. Not only is he obsessed with his girlfriend Philomena, whom to say is totally self-absorbed would be an understatement, he is obviously an alcoholic. The most perplexing thing about the character is that he states through most of the novel what traits he hates in his friends and colleagues, yet he is unaware that he exhibits many of these traits. Conner states that he despises that people admire Hollywood celebrities yet he is insanely jealous of Chip Ralston a Hollywood action movie star whom he finds out has stolen his model girlfriend. "I am mad at him because he is making my life difficult by not returning my calls. In the larger scheme, he is sucking up all the fame and money and adulation of women which might, in a more just universe, accrue to more a more worthy party " Conner is obviously speaking of himself as the other party. Connors jealousy develops into a festering hatred, strong enough that he attacks Chi!.
             p as he exits his limo. Often sighting Phelomena's lack of faithfulness, Conner can't come to terms with his own infidelity in the relationship. He has more then one sexual encounter with other women and even becomes obsessed with a local dancer at that strip club he visits on a regular biases.


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1. catcherin/brightlightsbigcity

... , characters often seek to escape their troubles and, in turn, embark on a journey that leads to both self-identification and maturation. The Narrator in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, are two such characters. In Bright Lights, Big City ... succeed. The Narrator never seemed to fit in while growing up, because "your father's annual job transfers made you the perennial new kid- (McInerney 47). He further explains the feelings of alienation throughout his childhood by saying, "if you ever go into psychoanalysis, you ...

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2. Bright Lights Big City

... away at said character's mental state. External conflicts, on the contrary, usually deal with physical things, such as drugs, money, and guns. In Jay McInerney's novel, Bright Lights Big City, the main character, who remains nameless throughout the entire story, faces both internal and external conflicts while trying to ... get his life back on the right track. McInerney paints a vivid picture of how these conflicts lead to the crumbling of a man. The main character, who will be known as the ... had said that they were all fags. She said "Au contraire, Pierre," ripping the last straine...

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3. Bright Lights

In Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City the narrator acts like an immature fool throughout most of the novel. The narrator does way too much partying, has little work ethic and his life ... has a responsibility to the dead. He believes that he should live the way that his mother would want him to be, and that is to be happy. The narrator in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City is an immature fool throughout most of the novel. Towards the end of the novel, there is an apparent growth of character and rite of passage ... ...

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  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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