Rabbit is Rich by John Updike | Characters, Summary, Analysis

Rabbit is Rich was the third novel of the Rabbit series by John Updike that was published in 1981. The novel is the sequel to Rabbit Redux and Rabbit, Run, and the prequel to the fourth and final novel Rabbit Remembered. The story of Rabbit is Rich is set in the late 1970s. The novel by John Updike exactly informs what the aging, late-20th-century industrial East of the US was like in sight, smell, sound, and social economy. The series began with Rabbit, Run telling the story of Harry Angstrom in his late 20s. He used to be a star basketball player but ended up with a boring job as a salesman. He got married to Janice only because she got pregnant. Frustrated with life in his hometown of Brewer, Pennsylvania, Harry meets a young girl, Ruth, pregnant, but leaves her before finding out whether she kept the child; his wife Janice drunkenly and accidentally drowns their newborn daughter in the bathtub. In the second novel, Rabbit Redux, Nelson grows into a teenage boy. He falls in love with Jill, a Hppie g