After The Wreck One Flew Away Character Analysis

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The use of characterization in the novel After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates is portraying a young adolescent who has a life changing experience. Oates has been able to succeed in creating very complex narratives that invite adolescents to think deeply about the trials that the characters experience throughout the novels. Oates expresses the reality of presence of evil (Bender 13). Joyce Carol Oates is numerously compared and contrasted with Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Theodore Dreiser. Even Flannery O’Connor (Bender 13). In the novel After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away, Oates shows a character named Jenna Abbott. In the novel, Jenna

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