Rabbit, Run Post #2

I really wish that for once an author wrote a book in all honesty to describe a situation. Like Updike hated his wife and wanted to run away so as an escape he wrote a book about it which made him feel better and that was it. I'm pretty sure that's not the case, though.

The message of the book that I draw from it is that running from your problems will only create more problems. Looking for solutions, though sometimes harder at the time, will more likely be an easier path in the long run.

I am usually pretty literal in the analyzing of literature, so if I had to predict what Updike wanted the reader to take out of his book I would assume it was the message that he was trying to potray. Actually I just finished watching the movie Capote, and if Updike was anything like Capote I'm not sure that Updike wasn't just writing the book because he thought the average reader in his time would buy it and it would fuel his own ego.