"In-between" Jews in Philip Roth's twentieth century America.

• Main Author: Liao, Sharon Ying Tong.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35260
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Whiteness is a social construction that is linked to social status. Most of the Jewish American characters in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus buy into the ‘American Dream’ as they try to assimilate into white American society. In the process of assimilation, they isolate themselves from the traditio...