Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust

Locust day of Nasana El West is known to many people as the best novel about Hollywood. When we quickly think about Hollywood, we will think of an attractive story in the picturesque environment of Los Angeles full of talented characters living in American dreams. This may be a difference between Western novels and other novels. This story is full of characters, they have an ambiguous impression of real reality and fantasy. These characters are drowning in Hollywood's life and seem to be a mistaken reality of how the world works.

"Locust Day" by Nathanael West is a realistic novel about a fantastic city. In the world of Hollywood and filmmaking, this story avoids the shine of stars and focuses on the fantasy life. It represents disillusioned people, and they think they were deceived by the fascination they promised themselves with fantasies. This novel highlights the spiritual and moral death of the city. And that is a sign of the internal state of the country. Desperation of unemployed actor, romantic but unfamiliar actress fantasy, unfortunate success of cartoons driving songs and dances, and novels emphasize the dream death and climax in Hollywood's premiere. The enthusiastic movie fans riot. This scene to end this novel reflects the efforts of Todd Hackett of the protagonist to complete his life in the painting of the panorama of the city burned in Los Angeles.

Nothanael West 's 1939 novel "Aphid Day" contains detailed graphic cockfight scenes, Alex Haley' s novel "The Roots: American family legend" and mini dramas based on it. In literature, the explanation of the birth fight festival is in "Border: Portrait of Southwest Frontier in America". Charles Wilfford wrote a novel, Cockfighter, detailed the life of the hero as "Cockerman". Abraham Valdelomar 's story in 1918 El Caballero Carmelo depicts the battle between the protagonist, Carmelo' s cock and his rival Ajiseco, and from the child 's point of view he thinks he is a family hero.

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.