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LITERARY/HISTORICAL INFORMATION
When Bellow published Seize The Day in book form in 1956, he
included with it three short stories, "A Father-to-Be," "Looking
for Mr. Green," and "The Gonzaga Manuscripts;" all three of the
stories deal with the terrible power of money. In Seize The Day,
Wilhelm suffers from a lack of money and his father's
unwillingness to help him, even though he has saved a fortune in
his lifetime. But Dr. Adler has lived through the Depression of the
1930's and knows the fear of losing everything.
Seize The Day shares affinities with Herzog. Both Herzog and
Wilhelm are in the midst of a serious domestic crisis when they
approach their fathers for money. Both also have extra-marital
affairs with catholic girls. Seize The Day also shares some
similarities with Dangling Man and The Victim. Bellow extends in
Seize The Day, the experiment with the first and third person
points of view that he had made in the earlier two works. All three
books also present several images of crowds with "imploring,
wrathful, despairing" faces.
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