The novel Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney relates the tale of a young man
working for a prominent newspaper in Manhattan by day, while visiting many bars and
nightclubs during the night. He manages to accomplish this through the help of his use of
cocaine, to which he is powerfully addicted. Throughout the novel McInerney employs the
use of the Coma Baby, a current story in the New York Post, a local tabloid, as a symbolic
representation of the main character. The Coma Baby has been residing in its mother's womb
after the mother suffered a car accident and entered a coma. Th…
