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ALSO BY ARNOLD WEINSTEIN Northern Arts Recovering Your Story A Scream Goes Through the House Vision and Response in Modern Fiction Fictions of the Self: 1550–1800 The Fiction of Relationship Nobody’s Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo Copyright © 2011 by Arnold Weinstein All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Permissions acknowledgments can be found on this page. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Weinstein, Arnold L. Morning, noon, and night: finding the meaning of life’s stages through books/by Arnold Weinstein. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-67960447-1 1. Life cycle, Human, in literature. 2. Human beings in literature. 3. Maturation (Psychology) in literature. 4. Aging in literature. 5. Literature, Modern—History and criticism. I. Title. PN56.L52W45 2011 809′.93354—dc22 2010017523 www.atrandom.com Jacket design by Susan Zucker Koski Jacket painting: Evelyn De Morgan, Night and Sleep, 1878 (© The De Morgan Centre, London/Bridgeman Art Library International) v3.1 To Catherine and Alexander Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Introduction GROWING UP Itinerary: Morning to Noon The Uses of Innocence William Blake’s Chimney Sweeps Innocence and Growing Up in the Thirty Years’ War: Simplicissimus Growing Up as Huckleberry Finn The Idiot’s Tale: William Faulkner’s Benjy The Little Princess: Marjane Satrapi’s Marjane The Lessons of Experience Lazarillo de Tormes: The Hungry Child Picaresque Wisdom: The Swindler Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot: A Capitalist Education Charles Dickens’s Pip: Haunted and Homeless Understanding Power: Growing Up as the Invisible Man Love Falling in Love William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Marguerite Duras’s The Lover Love Gone Wrong: The Story of Abuse Fyodor Dostoevsky Stories of Abuse: In the Margins Wuthering Heights Redux Jane Eyre Redux Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea Familial Sacrifice: Kindermord Charles Dickens Henrik Ibsen Going Under in Franz Kafka William Faulkner’s Quentin Compson Systemwide Sacrifice: Children and the Nightmare of History Art Spiegelman’s Maus Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Wild Child William Faulkner’s Light in August Tarjei Vesaas’s The Ice Palace Toni Morrison’s Sula Growing All the Way Up William Faulkner’s Ike McCaslin Alice Walker’s Celie Time’s Paths, Literature’s Paths GROWING OLD Itinerary: Noon to Night Fathers Undone William Shakespeare’s King Lear Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot The Aging of a Salesman: Willy Loman Exiting the Stage Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King The Old in Love POSTSEXUAL Rip Van Winkle Charles Dickens August Strindberg William Faulkner SEXUAL ANXIETY Othello Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois UNSANCTIONED LUST Molière Hamlet Accusing Gertrude Jean Racine’s Phèdre Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice The Final Harvest THE FINAL HARVEST AS MIRAGE Discovering That You’ve Never Lived: Henrik Ibsen You Missed Your Life: Henry James Waiting for the Light: Franz Kafka’s “Before the Law” Unmasked at the End: Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries Experience as Fraud: Montaigne, Sartre, Burroughs, Calvino THE GOOD FIGHT Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Philip Roth’s Everyman LIFE’S PLENITUDE Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom Love’s Legacy KEEPING THE HEART ALIVE Gabriel García Márquez’s Aureliano Ingmar Bergman’s Helena THE EYES OF LOVE William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 Old Cities, Old People: Sigmund Freud Poetry and Memory: Charles Baudelaire The Optics of Love: Marcel Proust ENDURING LOVE J. Bernlef’s Out of Mind Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgments About the Author

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ALSO BY ARNOLD WEINSTEIN Northern Arts Recovering Your Story A Scream Goes Through the House Vision and Response in Modern Fiction Fictions of the Self: 1550–1800 The Fiction of Relationship Nobody’s Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo Copyright © 2011 by Arnold Weinstein All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Permissions acknowledgments can be found on this page. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Weinstein, Arnold L. Morning, noon, and night: finding the meaning of life’s stages through books/by Arnold Weinstein. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-67960447-1 1. Life cycle, Human, in literature. 2. Human beings in literature. 3. Maturation (Psychology) in literature. 4. Aging in literature. 5. Literature, Modern—History and criticism. I. Title. PN56.L52W45 2011 809′.93354—dc22 2010017523 www.atrandom.com Jacket design by Susan Zucker Koski Jacket painting: Evelyn De Morgan, Night and Sleep, 1878 (© The De Morgan Centre, London/Bridgeman Art Library International) v3.1 To Catherine and Alexander Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Introduction GROWING UP Itinerary: Morning to Noon The Uses of Innocence William Blake’s Chimney Sweeps Innocence and Growing Up in the Thirty Years’ War: Simplicissimus Growing Up as Huckleberry Finn The Idiot’s Tale: William Faulkner’s Benjy The Little Princess: Marjane Satrapi’s Marjane The Lessons of Experience Lazarillo de Tormes: The Hungry Child Picaresque Wisdom: The Swindler Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot: A Capitalist Education Charles Dickens’s Pip: Haunted and Homeless Understanding Power: Growing Up as the Invisible Man Love Falling in Love William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Marguerite Duras’s The Lover Love Gone Wrong: The Story of Abuse Fyodor Dostoevsky Stories of Abuse: In the Margins Wuthering Heights Redux Jane Eyre Redux Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea Familial Sacrifice: Kindermord Charles Dickens Henrik Ibsen Going Under in Franz Kafka William Faulkner’s Quentin Compson Systemwide Sacrifice: Children and the Nightmare of History Art Spiegelman’s Maus Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Wild Child William Faulkner’s Light in August Tarjei Vesaas’s The Ice Palace Toni Morrison’s Sula Growing All the Way Up William Faulkner’s Ike McCaslin Alice Walker’s Celie Time’s Paths, Literature’s Paths GROWING OLD Itinerary: Noon to Night Fathers Undone William Shakespeare’s King Lear Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot The Aging of a Salesman: Willy Loman Exiting the Stage Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King The Old in Love POSTSEXUAL Rip Van Winkle Charles Dickens August Strindberg William Faulkner SEXUAL ANXIETY Othello Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois UNSANCTIONED LUST Molière Hamlet Accusing Gertrude Jean Racine’s Phèdre Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice The Final Harvest THE FINAL HARVEST AS MIRAGE Discovering That You’ve Never Lived: Henrik Ibsen You Missed Your Life: Henry James Waiting for the Light: Franz Kafka’s “Before the Law” Unmasked at the End: Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries Experience as Fraud: Montaigne, Sartre, Burroughs, Calvino THE GOOD FIGHT Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Philip Roth’s Everyman LIFE’S PLENITUDE Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom Love’s Legacy KEEPING THE HEART ALIVE Gabriel García Márquez’s Aureliano Ingmar Bergman’s Helena THE EYES OF LOVE William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 Old Cities, Old People: Sigmund Freud Poetry and Memory: Charles Baudelaire The Optics of Love: Marcel Proust ENDURING LOVE J. Bernlef’s Out of Mind Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgments About the Author

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From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life's most significant stages'growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein's provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, e
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