Individualism and Belonnging to the Family in Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb

Individualism and Belonging to the Family         Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb are concerned with the family and individualism. In the Accidental Tourist each character undergoes a transformation between individualism and belonging to his family. Individualism means isolation, while family means belonging. Searching for Caleb shows how rules can govern the family. However, in Tyler's Breathing Lessons, two characters are isolated in their own way, but find a way to renew …showed first 75 words of 1052 total…

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