Characters
There is more than a touch of the picaresque rogue in Jim Dixon. Jim perpetrates a
succession of practical jokes, tricks, and deceptions on other characters in the novel,
especially those who offend his democratic sensibility.
He has a talent for "pulling faces" and projecting voices gestures Amis uses to
enhance Jim's social commentary. He is sometimes aided and abetted in his roguery
by his fellow boarder, the salesman Bill Atkinson.
On campus, in addition to Welch, Johns, and Margaret, Jim is seen interacting with
certain female students to whom he is attracted and with Mr.
Michie, an ardent overachiever who keeps pushing Jim to provide him with the
syllabus for Jim's honors tutorial.
Off campus, Jim meets Christine Callaghan and eventually steals her away from
Bertrand Welch. Through Christine he meets her uncle Julius GoreUrquhart, a wealthy
entrepreneur and critic who hires Jim as his personal secretary.
Themes
As in all good comedy, the theme of this......
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