2007-05-01 09:17:22 · 22 answers · asked by Buffy Summers 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A lot of good answers here. The first answer to pop into my mind was "Moby Dick." The quest, the obsession. No doubt a worthy choice. Then I thought about Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans." What an insight into the frontiers of the American colonies. Love it. But I think F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is it. Gatsby had hope. Gatsby was America.
2007-05-01 14:42:18 · answer #1 · answered by Mac 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My husband says the greatest American novel is Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." This is because it breaks down character stereotypes and character choices that were typically found in the American Romantic period. It changed the face of literature.
I think it is "Absalom! Absalom!" by William Faulkner. It is truly unique, a great story, very difficult, and very brilliant. Among many things, the novel deals with the South, after the Civil War, haunting the present of the novel. It truly is a masterpiece.
2007-05-01 16:01:44 · answer #2 · answered by tanyarachel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Great American Novel" is The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. However I felt Grapes of Wrath, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Mark Twain novels are great American novels as well.
2007-05-01 09:31:07 · answer #3 · answered by chellyk 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are numerous books that are uncomplicated because of the fact the super American Novel - the super Gatsby; The Grapes of Wrath; Huckleberry Finn; To Kill a Mockingbird; Moby Dick, The Catcher interior the Rye and Slaughterhouse 5.
2017-01-09 06:37:49 · answer #4 · answered by taggert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catch-22
2007-05-01 09:32:14 · answer #5 · answered by ouranticipation 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone with the Wind
Second place: Grapes of Wrath
PS A Tale of Two Cities is by a British author. Just thought I would throw that out there.
2007-05-01 11:21:46 · answer #6 · answered by KND 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck. Even though I have read other novels that have enlightened and angered me, this book touches me in places that aren't always nice to visit.
Man's inhumanity to man, the struggle to maintain dignity in the face of great adversity. The slow decent into hell just to eke out a living in the grimmest of circumstance. It really hit home for me.
2007-05-01 09:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by Firespider 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Grapes of Wrath by J.Steinbeck
2007-05-01 09:28:37 · answer #8 · answered by adémo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Either "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "The Scarlett Letter." Both represent America well; they are merely set in different time periods.
2007-05-01 09:48:59 · answer #9 · answered by Andrea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To kill a Mockingbird, or Slaughterhouse Five. Don't let the Moby Dick voters get it. I read Moby Dick twice and it still sucks! (I read it twice because I had to read it in two separate classes in college getting an English major) Professors LOVE to assign that book; the sadists!
2007-05-01 09:52:43 · answer #10 · answered by Ya Ya 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋