John B. Updikes Short Story Trust Me - 980 Words

John B. Updike is a novelist, poet, short story author, playwright, children’s book author, literary critic, art critic, and essayist. Updike is one of the world’s most versatile, serious, and prolific writers. Though his writing style and subjects vary greatly, he is committed to addressing the moral, social, and cultural conditions of his generation. Updike was born on March 18, 1932 and raised in a small town by the name of Shillington, Pennsylvania, right outside of Reading. He lived there as an only child, until the age of thirteen. As he grew older, he attended Harvard University, where he majored in English and contributed to and later edited the Harvard Lampoon. In 1955 he married his first wife Mary Pennington, with whom he†¦show more content†¦In the story the main character, Harold, was married twice and in Updike’s life he was married twice. John and Harold also both only had children with their first wives. John Updike grew up in the northeast part of America, as did Harold. As John Updike’s children grew up with divorced parents I’m sure there were many trust issues within the family, this relates back to â€Å"Trust Me† because Harold’s children had trust issues with him on account of the divorce from his first wife as well. There are many ideas this story portrays that lead the reader back to the idea that John Updike’s â€Å"Trust Me† is really about his own life. Being known primarily as a fiction writer, Updike’s readers may believe that everything he writes has no relation to his life or the people in it. Just because he is known as a writer of fiction doesn’t mean that’s all he writes. Having wrote over 50 books and short stories, I’m sure at least one of his ideas were about his life in some way. Since â€Å"Trust Me† was written in the time period of the twentieth century, and all of Updike’s related works were fi ction and made up readers believed that â€Å"Trust Me† was as well. People believe â€Å"Trust Me† is a made up story that has no correspondence to Updike’s real life. Since Updike is one of the greatest American fiction writers of his generation, and he was the most written about living American novelist of his time, people believe that he onlyShow MoreRelatedANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesthat may prove helpful. PLOT The Elements of Plot When we refer to the plot of a work of fiction, then, we are referring to the deliberately arranged sequence of interrelated events that constitute the basic narrative structure of a novel or a short story. Events of any kind, of course, inevitably involve people, and for this reason it is virtually impossible to discuss plot in isolation from character. Character and plot are, in fact, intimately and reciprocally related, especially in modern fiction