The road to Los Angeles

The road to Los Angeles

by John Fante

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I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn't sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn't any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.

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    Arturo Bandini is an intensely contradictory protagonist, alternating between grandiose literary ambitions and crude, vulgar behavior; how does Fante make such an unlikable narrator so compelling to follow?

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    The novel explores the stifling weight of poverty and family obligation in Depression-era America; in what ways does Arturo’s socioeconomic situation fuel his intense anger and delusions of grandeur?

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    Arturo harbors a deep obsession with literature and philosophy, yet he struggles to produce anything of substance; how does his relationship with books and writing reflect his inner turmoil and his desperate need for self-definition?

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