On the"Paradoxical Echo"and Its Ethical Revelations in Goodbye,Columbus
Goodbye,Columbus is the first literary accomplishment of Philip Roth,a Jewish American writer.In this novella,Philip Roth reveals the"paradoxical echoing sounds"existed among most of Jewish American residents in the 1950s through the ill-fated love affair between Neil Klugman and Brenda Patimkin and their ethically inevitable break-up.Neil Klugman represented the younger gen-eration of Jewish intellectuals who even though had in mind misunderstandings toward traditional Jewish values and ethical views,still considered the traditional Jewish values indispensable in their own lives.Brenda on the other hand,represented those Jewish upper classes who looked down upon traditional Jewish values and chose to waive their own ethnicity entirely.Through the ethical choices made by Neil and Brenda,Roth freely expressed his own ethical considerations toward the issue of maintaining one's own minority identity at that critical moment.
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