Roger's Version - Major Themes

Major Themes

The novel's structure, characters and themes are based somewhat on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, with Roger Lambert representing Roger Chillingworth, his wife Esther Hester Prynne, Dale Arthur Dimmesdale and Paula Hester's illegitimate daughter Pearl.

Select works of John Updike
Rabbit Novels
  • Rabbit, Run (1960)
  • Rabbit Redux (1971)
  • Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
  • Rabbit at Rest (1990)
  • Rabbit Remembered (2001)
Bech books
  • Bech, a Book (1970)
  • Bech Is Back (1982)
  • Bech at Bay (1998)
Buchanan books
  • Buchanan Dying (1974)
  • Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Eastwick books
  • The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
  • The Widows of Eastwick (2008)
The Scarlet Letter trilogy
  • A Month of Sundays (1975)
  • Roger's Version (1986)
  • S. (1988)
Other novels
  • The Poorhouse Fair (1959)
  • The Centaur (1963)
  • Of the Farm (1965)
  • Couples (1968)
  • Marry Me: A Romance (1976)
  • The Coup (1978)
  • Brazil (1994)
  • In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
  • Toward the End of Time (1997)
  • Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
  • Seek My Face (2002)
  • Villages (2004)
  • Terrorist (2006)
Short story collections
  • The Same Door (1959)
  • Pigeon Feathers (1962)
  • Olinger Stories (1964)
  • The Music School (1966)
  • Museums and Women (1972)
  • Too Far to Go (1979)
  • Problems (1979)
  • Trust Me (1984)
  • The Afterlife (1994)
  • Licks of Love (2000)
  • The Early Stories (2003)
  • My Father's Tears (2009)
Poetry collections
  • The Carpentered Hen (1958)
  • Telephone Poles (1963)
  • Midpoint (1969)
  • Tossing and Turning (1977)
  • Facing Nature (1985)
  • Collected Poems (1993)
  • Americana (2001)
  • Endpoint (2009)
Adaptations
  • Rabbit Run
  • The Witches of Eastwick
  • Eastwick
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Characters
  • Hester Prynne
  • Roger Chillingworth
  • Arthur Dimmesdale
Film
  • The Scarlet Letter (1911)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1913)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1922)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1926)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1934)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1973)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Other media
  • The Scarlet Letter (1896 opera)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1979 TV miniseries)
Adaptations
  • The Holder of the World (1993 book)
  • In the Blood (1999 play)
  • Fucking A (2000 play)
  • Easy A (2010 film)
Related
  • The Brooklyn Follies
  • in popular culture
  • Pink permits
  • The Minister's Wooing
  • Roger's Version


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