Middle class America in J.Updike’s works.

John Hoyer Updike an American poet, short story writer and a novelist, is said to be one of the most respected, popular and prominent American author of his times. For over five decades, he has continually written fiction novels outlining the behaviors that are facing middle class people of 60's and 70's.His most famous book is the collection of Rabbit novels that ended up winning awards more than once for the best fiction movies.

In his fiction books, he extensively looks on the American middle Class, where he uses characters that come from such class of people who end up bringing out the crucial themes like religion, death and sex. In most cases he would use the themes together. He states that he loves using middle class people because it is in the middle that both extremes meet and crash and that is still where ambiguity extensively rules.

His works invade the community strongly by mocking the taboos that may make it illegal and the covetous state of men that drive them to adulterous. Updike being honest about it, explains that the taste, texture and sight of ladies' body can be perfect cause of the lustful state of men in middle class. Supporting himself, Updike replied he has in a great way favored such imagery to fully explain and make sex real in his writing. He adds that adultery is still another theme that he greatly addresses. This is mostly outlined in the book 'Couples.' His style makes him appear like a person gone through abandonment by his family and a guilty man on infidelity.

Considering the American theme, he mentions it with such a nostalgia mostly touching the point of the middle people in America and there lifestyle. He greatly recognizes and celebrates American wide diversity which makes America unique. In a great way, Updike differentiates and clearly outlines American beauty from what called American the Flat Jane. For the lovely protestant based in his writings and fictions that he shown clearly, it was enlightened continuous as it was unapologetic. For the series of the 'Rabbit', it can be viewed as a perfect confirmation of the outgrowing ordinariness of American way of life. As most of the time he appreciates ordinary Middle Americans, He also shows concern to the decline of the country as sometimes the downward rotation of America disturbed him.

On support of Updike fiction writings on the theme of religion which was being replaced by material possession and still on matters of sex. Updike's great theme of how America attempted to replace the faith gap with physical materials which were products of mass culture. Still he added that religious faith had been triggered by sex and luxurious things and for Updike, his hard work is greatly blessed.

Most of his fiction books outline characteristics that he himself claims he experienced when he was young. Hence he clearly uses his experience to bring out what people of his class faced and went through while growing up in middle class families. Many of his characters showed fear, the same way Updike states to have experienced when young as he did suffer greatly in his youthful age. He clearly outlines that, the fear the middle class people face make everything they commit themselves into feel meaningless, moreover it brings them close to God. He outlines it the same way it used to happen in real life of those in middle class of 60s and 70s.

On the death theme of people in middle class, it is in a great way brought out in a clear manner. The characters in his books provide a mosaic of reactions to life. This rages from attempts to commit suicide to terror and murder. For instance, in the Rabbit Series, Rabbit Angstrom, seeing the death of his daughter and his weak faith do in a great way demonstrate a religious and real faith presence in Updike's work. And at the end of fiction book 'Rabbit at Rest', Angstrom shows a kind of probability of having faith telling his son before he dies beside his deathbed. This demonstrates how many middle class people realize their mistakes late and regret at the time when they can do nothing about. On the book 'The Centaur, ' character Caldwell is afraid of the cancer he has and even he does not have faith religiously. This tries to bring out how many middle class people lose faith when they think God has abandoned them and they are in great problems. There is still outline of unseen terror the same way as how it is experienced by this middle class people.