The “Letters to Plowville” also reflect a time when a privileged college student like Updike could plot his future while many thousands his age were serving and dying in the Korean War, an event he scarcely mentions. He has equally little to say about McCarthyism, even as the anti-Communist inve
"I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in… and at certain times in my life I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing."