Rabbit, Run By John Updike Sparknotes

“Rabbit, Run” is a book by John Updike, is about a young man in his twenties and a former high school basketball player named Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom who feels trapped in his marriage to Janice. As a person in the book, Harry is seen as a selfish and immature person that uses basketball to avoid the past. Especially when it came to his wife who came from a different world as him but also had problems of her own. She was dealing with alcohol and drug problems. She was also dealing with a depression phase because she was scared Harry was going to leave her and she didn’t want that. While Harry was try so hard to avoid his past he knew at some point he was going to own up and face real life issues and stop thinking about himself. Janice is pregnant with their child and in the book she goes into labor. And while his wife was pregnant with their child he was having an affair with a prostitute named Ruth. Ruth seem to be that cool chick that was used as Harry’s escape from his problems. She was cool with that until my
Because there are a lot of athletics that start their career young and marry someone that later they realize was just a spare of the moment or their heart is just not in it anymore due to the change of feelings. Then, the athletics want to run away from their present and future situations. Something else I also noticed with this book is the fact that Rabbit always went back to his past and basketball to get away from his current problems. In general, a lot of athletics tend to fall back on their love for sports to get away from thing. Regardless of your class or gender, when you are going through a certain situation you are bound to result to the one thing you love to find yourself again. And when you are an athletic that one thing just happens to be sports. When if you are not an athletic most men in today’s society tend to watch a lot of sports to get their mind off of