Changing Places - How Zapp Morris and Philip Swallow's Life Changed
Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1
1 Morris Zapp 2 1.1 Morris Zapp at the beginning of ‘Changing places’ 2 1.2 Morris Zapp’s first few weeks in England 3 1.3 The rest of Morris Zapp’s stay in England 6
2. Philip Swallow 9 2.1 Philip Swallow at the beginning of ‘Changing places’ 9 2.2 Philip Swallow’s first few weeks in England 10 2.3 The rest of Philip Swallow’s stay in America 13
3 Literature 16
1 Morris Zapp
1.1 Morris Zapp at the beginning of ‘Changing places’
At the beginning of the novel Morris Zapp is extremely self-confident even arrogant, sarcastic, vain and feels superior when it comes to his work. He has a certain killer instinct that allows him to get what he wants and is a highly successful Professor at the Euphoric State University, whose career began very early as he already started publishing articles when he was still in graduate school. (Cf. Lodge 1975, p. 15)
‘Zapp was the man who had published articles in PMLA while still in graduate school; who, enviably offered his first job by Euphoric State, had stuck out for twice the going salary, and got it; who had published five fiendishly clever books (four of them on Jane Austen) by the time he was thirty and achieved the rank of a full professor at the same precocious age.’ (Lodge 1975, p. 15)
Though because of his great achievements when it comes to his career he has no aim anymore and is in a way depressed and also starts questioning the meaning of his life, as he feels that he has achieved everything he could achieve already. (Ibis p. 43f)
He could only significantly increase his salary either by moving to some god-awful place in Texas or the Mid-West where no one in his right mind would go for a thousand dollars a day, or by switching to administration, looking for a college Presidents job somewhere, which in the present state of the nation’s campuses was a through ticket to an early grave. At the age of forty, in short, Morris
Table of Contents 1
1 Morris Zapp 2 1.1 Morris Zapp at the beginning of ‘Changing places’ 2 1.2 Morris Zapp’s first few weeks in England 3 1.3 The rest of Morris Zapp’s stay in England 6
2. Philip Swallow 9 2.1 Philip Swallow at the beginning of ‘Changing places’ 9 2.2 Philip Swallow’s first few weeks in England 10 2.3 The rest of Philip Swallow’s stay in America 13
3 Literature 16
1 Morris Zapp
1.1 Morris Zapp at the beginning of ‘Changing places’
At the beginning of the novel Morris Zapp is extremely self-confident even arrogant, sarcastic, vain and feels superior when it comes to his work. He has a certain killer instinct that allows him to get what he wants and is a highly successful Professor at the Euphoric State University, whose career began very early as he already started publishing articles when he was still in graduate school. (Cf. Lodge 1975, p. 15)
‘Zapp was the man who had published articles in PMLA while still in graduate school; who, enviably offered his first job by Euphoric State, had stuck out for twice the going salary, and got it; who had published five fiendishly clever books (four of them on Jane Austen) by the time he was thirty and achieved the rank of a full professor at the same precocious age.’ (Lodge 1975, p. 15)
Though because of his great achievements when it comes to his career he has no aim anymore and is in a way depressed and also starts questioning the meaning of his life, as he feels that he has achieved everything he could achieve already. (Ibis p. 43f)
He could only significantly increase his salary either by moving to some god-awful place in Texas or the Mid-West where no one in his right mind would go for a thousand dollars a day, or by switching to administration, looking for a college Presidents job somewhere, which in the present state of the nation’s campuses was a through ticket to an early grave. At the age of forty, in short, Morris