Failure in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust

At the "Locust Day" of Nathanael West in Hollywood, California, many roles widely recognized as the capital of the film industry were introduced. One of the main characters of interest throughout the novel is Tod Hackett, who depicts West as being superior to the illusions he observes around him. Many characters visit Hollywood, pursuing personal and ambitious goals. However, since the imaginary personality and behavior that they create themselves are affected by the wrong environment, the failures they pursue have themes that are repeated.

Locust Day is a novel written by American writer Nathaniel West in 1939, created during the Great Depression in Hollywood, California, depicting another group's alienation and despair, the dream of success is actually I failed. The role of western novels is based on actors, artists, businessmen, dreamers and homeless people the West encountered among writers in Hollywood in the 1930s. All the characters are cards, they come to Hollywood to find something. In most cases, the West character is intentionally shallow and symbolic, "... from all B class genres of the time" (Simon, 523). West 's role is Hollywood' s stereotype.

Locust Day is a novel written by American writer Nasana El West in Hollywood, California in 1939. The novel tells the story of a young artist of the Yale Academy named Todd Hacket, hired by a Hollywood studio for landscape design and painting. During his work he is planning to call an important painting "burning in Los Angeles" which is a depiction of a chaotic and intense massacre that will destroy the city. Tod's friends are Hollywood's stereotype collection, but his larger discovery is part of society, "the eyes are full of hatred", and "came to California and died." Overcurrent in society captures the desperation of Americans who work only to understand what America's dreams are more elusive than they think. Their anger is boiling, and the recent Hollywood premiere boom broke out violently against mob rule and absolute turmoil.