Steppenwolf Themes

Lonesome, solitary, a loner, a lone… well, wolf. All words that aptly describe Steppenwolf protagonist Harry. He scares away girlfriends and wives, insults his friends, and has a penchant for roa...

Steppenwolf has people smoking "funny cigarettes" (wacky tobaccy, perhaps?) and taking potions and pills. The drugs turn out to be a gateway into the endless possibilities of the mind, and lets the...

Steppenwolf is all about one man trying to sort through his identity. He feels like he's divided into two selves: his animal, wolf side, and his human side. The two selves are at war, see-sawing up...

Razors, pills, pipes… Harry Haller, the protagonist of Steppenwolf, has thought of all sorts of ways to bring about his own end. He's obsessed with suicide, even though he is afraid of doing it....

Much like a third-grader memorizes all the Pokémon characters and their special powers, the protagonist of Steppenwolf, the Steppenwolf himself, is a self-made expert on all the great musicians an...

We're all mad here… but maybe Harry is a tad bit madder. Harry Haller, Steppenwolf's main character, is a self-proclaimed schizomaniac, which is a sort of combination bipolar and schizophrenic. T...

Steppenwolf is a two-parter. You get a preface that tells you that what you're about to read is probably fiction, but then you get the body of the work and it sounds like the narrator is pretty con...

Men turn into women who turn into men. The protagonist's friend turns into Mozart and back into his plain ol' friend. Doors appear and disappear into the night. Steppenwolf is full of magical trans...