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Summary. Lucky Jim belongs to the genre of fiction known as the picaresque novel—with its episodic lurchings, its opportunistic hero, and its emphasis on satirizing various English character ...
There is a clear autobiographical layer here .It's mentioned several times that Stanley ,like Amis is from a lower middle class South London background.And yes Amis was twice married and I couldn't help but wonder if Susan is a jaundiced portrait of Elizabeth Jane Howard.In all events, Amis wrote better novels than this both before and after STANLEY and that's a good thing.
- Kingsley Amis
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As they gnaw away at his composure, he wonders whether insanity is not something with which women are intimately acquainted.
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- Kingsley Amis
Stanley and the Women: With John Thaw, Geraldine James, Sheila Gish, Penny Downie. Stanley Duke is a middle aged advertising executive who's life is turned upside down when his son is diagnosed schizophrenic.
The elite women in Spartacus (1960) are denied any backstory and can be seen as stereotypical morally corrupt Romans, while their counterparts Lucretia and Ilithyia are fully rounded characters. Also, while Varinia is ultimately denied her own potential as a freedom-fighting rebel and is domesticated as a wife and mother in Spartacus (1960 ...
