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Abstract
This thesis aims at studying a slice of the American society; the
middle class through Updike’s Rabbit tetralogy. It also aims at proving
that Updike has been really the voice of America in the past few years
and has succeeded in presenting a genuine portrayal of the middle
American society with its comforts and anxieties, privileges and problems
and ambitions and fears. The thesis focuses on aspects of the
contemporary American society. It mainly covers four decades from the
presidency period of Dwight David Eisenhower to that of George Bush. It
falls into two concentric spheres: a macro social sphere and a micro social
sphere. The former portrays the socio- political, socio- economic and
socio- cultural structures of the contemporary American society at large
within its existing social, political, economic and cultural institutions. The
latter pinpoints the socio- domestic life of the characters in the tetralogy
within these institutions.