John Updike's Rabbit, Run, originally published in 1960, has excited successive generations of readers and critics alike. The novel follows the retirement of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from the certainty and order of the high school basketball court to the uncertainty and responsibility of adulthood. The narrative begins with Harry walking out on his pregnant wife, Janice, and infant son, Nelson. He feels trapped, "glued in with a lot of busted toys and empty glasses and television …showed first 75 words of 850 total…

…showed last 75 words of 850 total…the empty space between the opposition of images that I find Updike's substantive vision. In order to better define and reveal Updike as an affirmative spiritual author, I will rely on the theory of the narrative paradigm espoused by Walter R. Fisher to further show how Updike uses the narrative form as a meaning-making, epistemic activity, rather t! han as a means to deconstruct human experience. This file last updated on Friday, October 10, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**