Repressed housewife, the gossipy neighbors, and the shallowness-and, asīrooks points out, the absence of spiritual significance-are all part In fact, Walter and Patty Berglund are described as "young Literature, there are no happy people in the suburbs, and certainlyįrom this commentary and from many other reviews like it, one mightĬonclude that Freedom's protagonists live in the oft-vilified This message caught on (it's flattering to writers and otherĭissidents), and it became the basis of nearly every depiction of Outside, but deep down they are leading lives of quiet desperation. Middle-class Americans may seem happy and successful on the Sometime long ago, a writer by the side of Walden Pond decided that Life is devoid of any meaningful spirituality: Remaining trapped in the American literary "orthodoxy that suburban Times, David Brooks criticized Jonathan Franzen s new novel, Freedom for In a much-commented-upon 20 September 2010 op-ed in The New York Waldie's Holy Land: redeeming the spiritual geography of suburbia. Waldie's Holy Land: redeeming the spiritual geography of suburbia." Retrieved from Waldie's Holy Land: redeeming the spiritual geography of suburbia." The Free Library.
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