id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-1183	none	3. The Search to Be Human in Dangling Man	2012	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3256	192	68	1747–5376 The Search to Be Human in Dangling Man LEE TREPANIER Saginaw Valley State University Bellow’s first novel, Dangling Man (1944), is about a man named Joseph who does not know how to integrate himself in American life without losing the spiritual value of his isolation from society. At the end of the novel, Joseph admits to himself that he has failed to use his freedom, his gift of existence, and that his self- The Search to Be Human in Dangling Man 54 identity has become increasingly fractured as his reason is unable to find ultimate meaning to what it means to be “human.”	cache/expositions-1183.pdf	txt/expositions-1183.txt