Originally written in Spring 1996
Robert Penn Warren, in All the King’s Men, uses the crumbling of a political regime as background for Jack Burden’s search for self-confidence and self-esteem, which were really steps in his search for himself.
Men search. Jack learned that life was a series of unrelated events in which one’s actions were so [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Jack’s Burden
January 6, 2005 – 11:38 pm
