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A 3 page essay that examines the theme of anger in novels by Fante and Himes. John Fante, in his novel The Road to Los Angeles, and Chester Himes in If He Hollers Let Him Go, both picture angry young men as their protagonists. While both of these characters have their anger at society in common, this is perhaps their only similarity. Yet, in both cases, the authors use their anger as a tool for expressing larger thematic messages. No additional sources cited.
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as their protagonists. While both of these characters have their anger at society in common, this is perhaps their only similarity. Yet, in both cases, the authors use their anger
as a tool for expressing larger thematic messages. Fantes angry young man is Arturo Bandini, an adolescent Italian American, who is convinced that he has a higher calling beyond
the menial jobs that he engages in to support his mother and sister. Arturo has unshakeable confidence in his own intelligence and ability, so much so, in fact, that it
suggests that much of his bravura is to cover up his insecurity over his humble origins and his fear that he will find himself forever stuck in a dead-end menial
job. This fears comes out at anger at those around him--at himself-his family--and he inevitably does something or says something that causes him to lose his job--or he simply
quits. By the end of page 1, he has quit two jobs, one as a ditch diggers and another as a dishwasher. Arturo puts his dissatisfaction very articulating, "Arturo, I
said, the future of this is very limited" (Fante 9), and he subsequently quits. Arturo nurses wounds to his ego by memorizing and using a vocabulary that sounds as
if it jumped straight out of a thesaurus and by reading Nietzche. One employer loses patients with Arturo because he spends his time in the bathroom, "memorizing a long passages
about voluptuousness" in a book by Nietzche (Fante 11). This coming-of-age novel concludes with Arturo writing his mother a farewell note that states his intention to go to Los Angeles
and seek his fortune as a writer. In this letter, he maintains the formal--"Im so much better than you" persona that he has adopted throughout the narrative. He addresses the
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