"Trout Fishing In America"

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This paper examines how Richard Brautigan?s 1961 novel, "Trout Fishing In America", is on the surface, a disorganised, funny and sprawling book that slotted into the beat and hippie culture of the 1960s seamlessly. In particular, it looks at how underneath the seemingly careless array of ?flippant? chapters lies a hugely complex and rigidly structured portrait of modern and mythical America focusing on the broken American dream, loss of innocence and so much more. It shows how disappointment, loss and death form the great undercurrent of the trout stream throughout Brautigan?s work and fester throughout, from the first page to the last.

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"Another usage of this dead past and the disappointment and despair that the present brings, is instilled in the "mayonnaise jar that rests on the grave of the American dream." Indeed, as well as giving a colloquial, non feeling account on an eighteen year old killed in a bar brawl it is an echo back to similar epitaph in Moby Dick. However, all the valour, glamour and general positives of a heroic epitaph have been totally removed in favour of a comical and almost embarrassing death, merely a hundred years later. This death goes a long way to detail the changed conditions of what has happened in America according to Brautigan."

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