Consider the treatment of families on the writing of the post war period.

By focusing on Less Than Zero (1985) by Bret Easton Ellis and The Accidental Tourist (1985) by Anne Tyler I will search the primary family groups with reference to any relevant secondary characters. I will examine the different relationships the protagonists, Clay and macon, have with their families and prove whether there is any correlation between their upbringing and their blank space at home, and how they adapt and communicate in the outside world. The parents of both(prenominal) Clay and macon are separated and do, or did non exercise a stable family unit. Clays produce does not live at home with his mother and sisters and macons mother left him and his brothers and sister in the contend of their grandparents. Clay is a dependent child, although at college, and displays negative attributes, such as drug abuse, which could be due to the unstable government agency at home. maconnais is a middle-aged man and exhibits problems communicating with anyone outside the secure circle of his siblings, which could be a sleep effect of the disconnected childhood due to the abandonment by his mother. Throughout my discussion of both books I will ask the treatment of single parent families and highlight the negativity of these portrayals.




macon is very close to his siblings and they all have peculiar spirit traits that inhibit their capability to interact with people outside their family group. Macons own condition seems to have been entertainled while he was living with his wife Sarah, but after she leaves him he is consumed by sadness for their late twelve year old son, Ethan, who was murder whilst away at camp. The unpredictability of Ethans death upsets Macons reliable structure in life and he experiences difficulty in accepting the fact that he cannot control what happens to him or those around him. When left on his own Macon immediately and unconsciously reverts back to his irrational habits in an approach to regain order and organisation.

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