Recently Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, edited by Dr. Vishwanath Bite, published an essay on Updike that’s also online:
“A View of 1990s American Society through Updike’s Rabbit Remembered,” by Dr. Kavitha Mohan (Angel College of Engineering and Technology, Tirupur, Tamilnadu, India) and B.S. Gomathi (Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Thudupathi, Perundurai, Erode, Tamilnadu, India).
ABSTRACT: John Hoyer Updike is considered as one of the greatest American fiction writers of his generation. He was a great poet, short story writer, essayist, novelist, art critic and a literary critic. To brief, he was a man of letters. Updike also was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, unique prose style, and prolific output.
Updike’s Rabbit series which comprises of the novels Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest and the novella Rabbit Remembered is regarded as his supreme achievement by the critics. Rabbit Remembered draws a final close to the Rabbit saga. The novels Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest won Pulitzer prize for fiction. Updike is one of only three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction more than once. The protagonist of the series is an American small town, protestant, middle-class man, Harry Angstrom who is nicknamed as Rabbit. As Updike mirrored America in all his works, he was also considered as a great social critic. This paper aims at viewing nineteen nineties American society through the novella Rabbit Remembered.
Here’s the full essay.