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An 8 page summation and analysis of Andrew Holleran’s novel Grief. In this novel, the author deals with the thoughts, attitudes and observations of the protagonist, who is grieving over the loss of his mother and the social difficulties of being an aging gay. No additional sources cited.
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who is in Washington, D.C. to teach a seminar entitled "Literature and AIDS." The protagonist, who provides the narrative voice of the novel, has a house in Florida, is grieving
over the death of his mother, is gay, and has lost a great many of his friends to AIDS. While the narrator is somewhat younger than his middle-aged landlord who
is also homosexual, he-like his landlord-has reached a point in life where he ponders the meaning of his existence, which means that he also grieves for his own lost prospects
and confronts the specter of loneliness that appears to be typical of the homosexual life style for many gay men. As this suggests, Holleran deals with internal spaces in
this novel, the thoughts, attitudes and observations of the narrator towards life, the people who interact with him, and - most significantly-towards grief. In so doing, the author provides the
reader with tremendous food for thought as the narrator brings up and considers numerous moral and ethical issues. In short, the underlying theme of this novel is nothing less than
the Big Question of existence, as it addresses the meaning of life-and of death. In the opening chapters, the reader gets to know the narrator and his situation. He
describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as in a dream" (Holleran 3). As
this statement suggests, Holleran is adept at giving his readers insight into his narrators deepest feeling, which characterizes the narrator as a man who is very aware of his emotions
and who already has some insight at the beginning of the novel as to why he feels the way he does over certain situations. In other words, the narrator names
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