Rereading it after several decades, I can see two main threads in it that still speak to us. He was especially unhappy with his failure to achieve the tone he wanted in some of the short stories. And Roth, himself, was critical of it late in his career. Others had trouble with its treatment of sex and other distasteful matters. Some orthodox Jews criticized it for self-loathing antisemitism. I suspect that it was a strong influence on The Graduate, both the 1963 novel and the 1967 film. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Ralph Ellison.
It has been compared with the works of such writers as J. Goodbye, Columbus is usually called Philip Roth’s first novel, although it is in truth a novella, usually published with five short stories to give it the heft it needed to sell as a book.
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