2Plath James,Conversations with John Updike.Jackson:University Press of Mississippi,1994,p56.
3Charles Berryman,“Updike Redux:A Series Retrospective,”in Rabbit Tales:Poetry&Politics in John Updike’s Rabbit Novels,ed.Lawence R.Broer(Tuscaloosa,AL:University of Alabama Press,1988),p.17.
4“anti-On the Road.It tried to say,yeah,it’s nice to get out on the road,but you tend to make a mess of the people you leave behind.That freedom carries its own cost?in Rabbit Tales:Poetry&Politics in John Updike’s Rabbit Novels,ed.Lawence R.Broer,(Tuscaloosa,AL:University of Alabama Press,1988),p.35.