Category: Book The Day Of The Locust

The three major characters of this novel, which is set in the 1930s during the time of the Great Depression, are Tod Hackett, Faye Greener and Homer Simpson. Tod Hackett is an Ivy League schooled and aspiring artist who comes to California in search of his muse. Although his day job is working in sets…

The Day of the Locust The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West , set in Hollywood , California during the Great Depression , depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals whose dreams of success have effectively failed . The characters in West’s novel are……