American Society Portrayed in Tolkins The Player and Among the Dead :: Tolkin Player Among the Dead

A Fractured American Society Portrayed in Tolkins The Player and Among the DeadThe novels The Player and Among the Dead are not simply tales about any given character, as it would appear, but in fact they represent Tolkins admit personal vision of what he thinks American fiat is becoming. Namely, that it is a fractured society built on false determine, where people have difficulty traffic with the truth of feelings or situations and where people will do anything to make money. The various(prenominal) plots are realistic though, and they seem to work as both true to life(predicate) dramas and broader social commentaries. This gritty realism becomes apparent after a outline look at the events of each novel. Part of a major Hollywood executives job is to reject sources in the polite dont call us, well call you fashion. moreover when The Players Griffin Mill starts to receive death threats from an anonymous writer, he panics. In an attempt to clear his conscience of not replyin g, he contacts a writer at random from his old diary, who he cant even remember, and chases him down to prune and offer him a job writing a impudently film. scarce when the writer laughs in Griffins face, Griffin goes mad with frustration and murders him. The rest of the twaddle involves Griffins slow breakdown involving knowing hell get caught his romantic attachment with the writers widow girlfriend his realisation of knowing hes getting older and a new young hot-shot producer threatening his job, and the real death-threatening writer still exhausting to kill him. This also acts as a broader social commentary on the way American society, particularly Hollywood, is made up of lies, false values and dishonesty to the point of absurdity. Among The Dead begins with another executive, Frank Gale, writing a earn. This letter is a carefully crafted forgive-me note in which he confesses to an affair hes been having. The intent is to take his wife on holiday and give her the letter and indeed spend the rest of the time trying to sort out their marriage. simply Frank takes too long saying goodbye to his mistress and he ends up missing the plane, which and then crashes killing everybody on board, including his family. The book then follows Frank dealing with his wife and daughters death and the way in which the air hose company find Franks letter in the wreckage, and sell it to create a sensational news story and also in defence against a law suit from the victims of the crashs families, as blackmail against Frank.