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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe thesis writer discusses the theme of loneliness and
alienation in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel through the
main character's personality and conflicts. The society in
which Eugene as the main character lives has been susceptible
by materialism. It leads to greediness, selfishness and
hypocrisy. Through this condition, the thesis writer would
like to discuss Eugene's personality and his conflits, in
reaction to his society. Being pressured in a materialistic
society has influenced the development of Eugene's personali-ty
and led to his conflicts. He becomes melancholic, strong-hearted,
introverted, immaterialistic and furthermore he is
trapped in conflicts. The thesis writer finds out that
through his personality and conflicts he is alienated by his
surroundings. Thus the thesis writer discovers that material-ism
has caused the absence of love which becomes the reason
of Eugene's loneliness and alienation as revealed through his
personality and conflicts.