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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about the main character's alienation in Saul Bellow's Dangling
Man. In this study, the writer analyses the cause of Joseph's alienation and the
ways he alienates himself. In this study, the writer wants to prove that because of the
dreams that he cannot reach in the reality, Joseph alienates himself. He alienates
himself both from the society and even from himself. In analyzing the main
character's alienation, the writer puts some theories. They are literary theories and
the theory about alienation from some books. After analyzing the main character's
alienation, the writer finds that the clash between Joseph's dreams and the
disappointing reality which is full of conflicts make him distressed and finally
cause his withdrawal from the society. He alienates himself from the society he lives
in and when the thing is getting worse, he endures self alienation since he is strange
to himself At last, Joseph who feels that he is nobody in his present environment,
struggles to be somebody by choosing to join the army to go to the battlefield. The
writer finds out that as Joseph fails to find his goal of life in his present environment,
he tries to find it in other place.