Of Huck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature
Neil Schmitz
Mary Jane Reed is at once a "pathetic screwy hillbilly cunt" (PC, p. 151) and the " fulfillment of all my lascivious adolescent dreams" (PC, p. 214). Roth stresses the analogy, makes us see Portnoy 's Complaint as a rearrangement of Huckleberry ...