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work_ufpvtos5nre2tagmd2ekx6atz4	Stefanie Kemminger	The uncomfortable American neo-realism of Philip Roth	2018.0	83	.pdf	application/pdf	36081	2040	67	In my thesis, I am analyzing narrative techniques and will attempt to answer the question what it is about Roth's style and choice of language that makes for a highly emotional reader response. Moral is also a continuous topic in Roth's novels and particularly in Portnoy's Complaint it is ever-present since the novel evolves around Alexander's self-deprecating struggle with his compulsive masturbation. was the dream of his life" (WSWG 3)–the motto of Willard Carroll, Lucy Nelson's grandfather, and the focal point of the first part of the novel. a character's negative affective states, such as those provoked by undergoing persecution, suffering, grieving, and experiencing painful obstacles, make a reader's empathizing more likely" and she added the following hypothesis: "Empathetic responses to placing Willard at Lucy's grave, Roth sets out the novel by creating suspense as to first half of the novel, ultimately "the narrator leads the reader to feel relief in the humiliating and improbable demise of Roth's rebellious heroine" (Husband 26).	./cache/work_ufpvtos5nre2tagmd2ekx6atz4.pdf	./txt/work_ufpvtos5nre2tagmd2ekx6atz4.txt