Volume V Special Issue II May 2025

Name of Author : Cijo Christober. J, Dr. R. S. Regin Silvest

Title of the paper : Understanding Interpersonal Strife: A Study of Relationships in Philip Roths American Pastoral

Abstract: Philip Roth is one of the most eminent American authors. He earned the Pulitzer Prize for the novel American Pastoral in 1997. His works broach the Jewish bourgeois life and the painful complexities within family ties. Some of his works take satirical sweeps at political and sexual subjects. Roths authorship is also inextricable from the motif of an idealistic, family loving secular Jewish American who struggles to amalgamate into general society to make a good family and a good business. The psychological influence of their parents, rabbis, and community leaders causes most of his second and third generation characters to chafe under its grip. This piece of writing is an endeavor to uncover the myriads that love and relationships have brought into the scope of American Pastoral.

Keywords : Jewish Bourgeois, Family Ties, Political Subjects, Sexual Objects, Psychological Influence.

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Page Number : 138-141