Authors: Dr. Girisha D
Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the value of an analysis of a fragmentary view of self in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. The first few years of the protagonist Eugene Gant’s life are the focus of the novel, and these years are followed by a near-literal weaving. Apart from the religious order, it includes every experience that the apprentice hero typically goes through. The narrative depicts Eugene Gant’s struggle as a young man to support himself from his surroundings, especially to escape his domineering mother. He experiences friction with his siblings during his canonical childhood. The study’s structural representations pinpoint the individuals that Wolfe related with during his early years and whose characteristics gave him the fundamental framework for self-construal. His self-perception can be divided into two categories: elaborated and undeveloped. Wolfe’s description of his adolescence demonstrated this, even as he became more self-centred.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17773902
