Tyler's "Accidental Tourist" And "Searching For Caleb": Individualism And Belonging To The Family
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Tyler's "Accidental Tourist" and "Searching For Caleb": Individualism and
Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb
are concerned with the family and individualism. In the Accidental Tourist
each character undergoes a transformation between individualism and
belonging to h ....
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.... there is a portrait of the Leary children at the Leary
household. This portrait symbolizes the security that Macon feels now that
he has moved back into the unchanging past (Reisman 1980).
Then Macon met a woman, Muriel, and "he felt content with
everything exactly the way it was. He seemed to be suspended, his life on
hold." (161) With Muriel he was isolated from his family. He is an
individual who does not need family to rule his life. However, Macon
finally returns to ....
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