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Day Of Locust Analysis

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The start points of the authors' perspective on Los Angeles are different. The Nathanael West views the Hollywood as a lower class; Todd Hackett was just one of many set designers in Hollywood. In the 1940s, the city's development could not handle the amount of influx of people. They came to Los Angeles with hopes and dreams in bare hands. Nathanael West focuses lower class people's emotions that people are weak in individual, but when they form a group, they become powerful. In the Day of Locust, Todd often thinks about raping Faye as a wrong expression of his desire. Through out the story, his love towards Faye has been changing pure and innocent to obsession and sexual compulsion. Faye, in other hand, keeps flirting with other guys with
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