Seize the Day Research Paper

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow is a very interesting novel. As you read more and more into the book, Bellow brings you closer and closer to Tommy Wilhelm. Wilhelm is isolated from everybody and everything, giving this book almost a "day in the life of" sort of feel to it. This book reminds me a lot of Spike Lee's movie The 25th Hour, starring Edward Norton. In the movie, you spend a day in the life of Monty Brogan, played by Norton. Through out the entire movie, Norton, just like Wilhelm, is trying to find himself and to set his life straight, all taking place in one day. Seize the Day…