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This is a 3 page paper discussing business, political, historical and cultural aspects of Joseph Heller’s novel “Good as Gold”. American writer Joseph Heller (1923-1999) is probably best known for his anti-war novel “Catch-22” written in 1961. Born of poor Jewish parents however, Heller often reflected on his cultural heritage and its place in modern American society especially in the novel “Good as Gold” written in 1979. The protagonist, English professor Bruce Gold “tries to regain the Jewishness he has lost” throughout his involvement with presidential public relations (Books, 2000). Heller, through the use of puns and verbal games which are considered suitable for the Washington environment, manages to incorporate not only an interesting storyline for Gold but also interesting and significant business, historical and cultural references for his readers.
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of poor Jewish parents however, Heller often reflected on his cultural heritage and its place in modern American society especially in the novel "Good as Gold" written in 1979. The
protagonist, English professor Bruce Gold "tries to regain the Jewishness he has lost" throughout his involvement with presidential public relations (Books, 2000). Heller, through the use of puns and verbal
games which are considered suitable for the Washington environment, manages to incorporate not only an interesting storyline for Gold but also interesting and significant business, historical and cultural references for
his readers. In one incident, Heller through his character of Gold reflects on the historical discrimination towards Jews in regards to modern business and social circumstances. Written in the 1970s
and Heller having grown up in New York would have made him only too aware of the growing discrimination against and by the Jewish workforces within the city in the
1960s. In "Good as Gold", Gold while he is slowly becoming morally corrupted "by a rising sense of privilege and potential power ... rejects on principle discrimination against anyone in
summer resorts, knowing that Jews like him had earlier been forbidden from many of them". Buhle (2003) however compares Golds actions to today and notes that "if [Gold] saw now
more than a few nonwhite faces, he would immediately head for another resort" (Buhle, 2003, p. 71; Heller, 1979). Buhle argues that
Golds attitude towards the summer resorts is very similar to something which happened in the labor movement in the past century. In the Jewish sectors in some of the larger
cities, trade unions were developed which were comprised mainly of idealistic Jewish workers and leaders and these became "stolid bureaucratic institutions firmly committed to the perpetuation of existing leadership" (Buhle,
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