Trumbo builds on the Johnny Got His Gun dialectics on the works of György Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin, expressing what we can best describe as a body of grotesque, reified, and phenomenal.
What is significant, however, is that the issues in Pride and Prejudice are much more localized and abstract than we sometimes suggest.
When readers judge Holden’s sanity or his status as a social critic, The Catcher in the Rye shows that anyone wants to have an informed view of Holden.
Lord of the Flies is pessimistic about human nature being permanently equal to good and evil.
Such refusal completes the narrative level of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment with a refusal to work.