Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is the main character and narrator of The Human Comedy. Saroyan develops several references to the ancient Greek poet Homer, author of The Odyssey. In the novel, Ithaca, California becomes the setting, rather than Fresno. GradeSaver, 10 December 2022 Web.William Saroyan’s 1943 novel The Human Comedy is loosely based on his own life in Fresno, California, where he grew up in a fatherless home with his mother and siblings.
Next Section Character List Previous Section About The Human Comedy How To Cite in MLA Format Hanson.A.F, Merfin, et al. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. The same day, though, Marcus's good friend, Tobey, comes home safely from war, and they accept him into their home as family. He brings the note to his mother, and they mourn the loss bitterly. His older brother Marcus has died in combat. Sprangler to deliver a telegraph to his own home. One day, at work, Homer gets an instruction from Mr.
Homer struggles to make sense of small-town life in the misery of death, and he struggles to do his job, delivering bad news to people in town. The deceased father visits Homer's mother one night with two messages: the first is encouragement, and the second is a warning-Marcus, Homer's older brother, will die. Mostly, the townsfolk talk about the war, and about the death of the young soldiers who are fighting abroad. There is a list of other townsfolks that he passes by and discusses, and a few outsiders that he doesn't know. Homer also attends school, but he is mostly concerned with his crush, a gal named Helen who is already dating someone else. Covington, an optimist and pessimist respectively. Sprangler.Īt the local general store, he talks with Mr. He is delivering a notice to a woman that her son has died at war, and we meet his boss, Mr. He works as a telegraph messenger and the novel begins with him at work. He is a teenager whose only other sibling is at war in WWII.
Homer is the sole protector of his mother and his two younger siblings, Bess and Ulysses. Written by Merfin Hanson.A.F and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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