@article{2013,title={SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND IDENTITY PROBLEMS IN PHILIP ROTH'S ZUCKERMAN BOUND},abstractNode={Philip Roth dealing with anti-Semitism, alienation and identity in especially Jewish society is one of the distinguish American-Jewish writers in the twentieth century. Zuckerman Bound consisting of The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson and The Prague Orgy recounts the famous Jewish author Nathan Zuckerman who has marginal novels which are not popular among Jews. Not only does Zuckerman discuss with people in other religion but also he is a controversial person in Jewish society. In fact, Roth depicts himself by penning a protagonist Zuckerman. The feeling of disorientation and statelessness rise in Zuckerman/Roth mind in four novels. For example in Anatomy Lesson, Zuckerman becomes "a helpless patient who is compelled to ask himself whether or not he can even become someone different" (Wilson, 2005: 104). Also Greenberg depicts the same novel as "Zuckerman's involvement with transgression as a man and a writer" (1997). In each novel, the reader can find the attempts of adaptation, isolation and how the protagonist alters in both Jewish and American society. Even though the themes dealt with differ from each novel, by and large, the plot is predicated on the protagonist’s psychology. In this study, Roth / Zuckerman' s identity and the social constraints shaping them will be argued.},author={Faruk KALAY},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}