Rabbit, Run Post #2

I don't think anyone could know exactly why a writer would write some of the things they do. Many draw from real-life experiances that they have had, things they have dreamed, problems they want to figure out. However, if I had to guess I would say that Updike's reason to write Rabbit, Run is a combination of the above. I think he wanted the reader to understand the way Rabbit felt(frustation and angst for his life) and why he would run from it. He wanted the reader to get inside Rabbits world and become him, and to know what it was like to not what the things that his life gave him. I think it is easy for the reader to do this because it is so much like reality, in the sense that, it is easy to be afraid of life and question it. How did it turn out this way? Do I really want this life? Maybe Updike wanted us to know that you can't run away from you problems and decided to help us by giving us an example. Possibly, he might have been through some kind of similar stuggle and wanted to privately share it with the world using the main character as something to hide behind. Ultimately, I believe that the reader will take away the knowledge that running from your problems never really solves them. You have to face them, even if that does't solve them either it is the responsible thing to do.