“Listening” to the Rhetoric of the “Mccarthy Era” in I Married a Communist
“Listening” to the Rhetoric of the “Mccarthy Era” in I Married a Communist

Summary/Abstract: I Married a Communist is a long novel and the seventh book in the Zuckerman series to feature the character Nathan Zuckerman, a character-narrator who for the second time chooses to step aside and focus on the life story of a different character. The novel comprises the narrator’s apparent reporter-like reconstruction of Ira Ringold’s life experiences by locating them within a political, social and autobiographical context. The audience soon realizes the unreliability of the narrator who in an effort to render coherence to the man’s destiny fills in the gaps of information with his own imagined explanations. The novel also offers an explanation to Zuckerman’s choice of a writing career.

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