The Adventures of Augie March Themes

Set mostly in Chicago before and during the Great Depression, The Adventures of Augie March gives readers several glimpses into the criminal world of the time, without all the pesky danger of actua...

What makes a family and what holds it together? Is shared blood more important than shared goals and sentiments? The Adventures of Augie March asks these questions, even if it doesn't answer them....

Augie March has a blank space, baby, and he'll write your name. His love life would be fodder for more than a few Taylor Swift songs. His story is a steady string of failed romances—he shakes one...

How do you fuel your ambitions when the world about you crumbles and the typical opportunities of life are lost to you? The Adventures of Augie March is set shortly before and during the Great Depr...

Can we understand ourselves apart from others? Is our identity our own or is it fashioned by the influence of other people upon us? Can we rise above limits society defines for us? And if we can an...

Rather than put fate and freewill into opposition, The Adventures of Augie March defines the two terms in relation to each other. In the world of the novel, your fate is not so much a determined de...

It's typical for college students to change majors once, twice, maybe three times, but those who graduate eventually settle their decision and move ahead. Augie March, the protagonist of Bellow's g...

Ever wonder what it was like to be poor in early twentieth century America? The Adventures of Augie March gives us several snapshots of the conditions people faced, particularly after the Wall Stre...

The Adventures of Augie March doesn't have the close-up scrutiny of class arrangements and conflicts that you get in Gosford Park or Jane Austen, but the divide between the wealthy, independen...

As The Adventures of Augie March moves quickly from place to place without a singular plot, the novel's thematic content can come off as more of glance than a gaze. Like the book's other themes, th...