Lucky Jim Analysis

From the outset, we see that Jim feels like a fish out of water on the university campus. The entire atmosphere seems oppressive and anxiety-provoking to him. Unlike most places of work, universiti...

The narrator knows everything about Jim Dixon, including all of his secret desires (women and booze) and dreams (to not have to put up with Professor Welch). But when it comes to other characters,...

The book's a traditional comedy in the sense that it's humorous and it gives Jim a happy ending with his new girlfriend, Christine (courtesy of his fairy godfather, Mr. Gore-Urquhart). But the book...

Humor and sarcasm are where the author lives in this story. Jim is the vehicle for their expression, and the book consists mainly of all his hilariously sarcastic observations and comments. Bear wi...

Kingsley Amis might not have any time for pretentious people who like to show off how smart they are; but there's no getting around the fact that Amis himself is obviously a highly literate dude—...

If you glance at the book's epigraph, you'll actually see that the title of Lucky Jim comes from the lyrics of what Kingsley Amis refers to as an "Old Song" entitled "Lucky Jim." Fancy that. The ti...

Oh, lucky Jim,How I envy him.Oh, lucky Jim.How I envy him.As we mention in the "What's Up With the Title?" section of our analysis, the epigraph of this book seems like an explanation of its title....

The Welches withdrew and began getting into their car. Moaning, Dixon allowed Christine to lead him away up the street. The whinnying and clanging of Welch's self-starter began behind them, growing...

Realistically, it's totally possible that Lucky Jim creeps into the snow line (maybe at a 7 rating). Yeah, it's full of tons of great humor and get-able jokes. But at the same time, Amis sometimes...

This Guy Doesn't Seem So LuckyMeet Jim Dixon, a young man working as a lecturer at British redbrick university, and looking to get his job contract renewed for the following year. Unfortunately, th...

First things first: we're introduced to Jim Dixon, who isn't in all that great a situation, because he totally has to curry the favor of Professor Welch, a boss he basically hates. Oh yeah, and Jim...

Jim can't stand his boss, Professor Welch. But hey, he still has to try to make the old man happy, so he agrees to stay at Welch's house for a boring weekend of music, conversation, and limited boo...

Just like Jim Dixon, Kingsley Amis loved the drink so much that he wrote an entire book about all things alcoholic, titled On Drink. (Source)He was also the subject of an article in the magazine "M...

To be fair, this book is mostly about stuffy English professors and pretentious artists, and there's very little to make your glasses fog up. But there's a fairly steamy drunken scene where Jim mak...

James Joyce, Ulysses. (4.121): When Jim first meets Bertrand, he suddenly remembers a line from a book (which he can't remember) that goes "And with that he picked up the bloody old towser by the s...