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Identity-Shopping and Postwar Self-Improvement in Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on a Train."

Patricia Highsmith's first novel, "Strangers on a Train" (1950), is part of a lineage of American novels that depict the perils of aestheticizing class difference, interclass contact and social mobility. Highsmith's protagonist, idealistic architect Guy Haines, is, like Dreiser's Carrie Meeber, a ru...

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Published in:Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 21 - 41
Main Author: Lukin, Josh
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Indiana University Press Summer2010
Subjects:
Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
Strangers on a Train (Book)
Modern literature
Seguin, Robert
Story plots
Narrative inquiry (Research method)
Literary form
Storytelling
Oral interpretation
20th century (Literary period)
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