Day of the Locusts

This story starts out with kind of a banal feeling to me, it reminds me slightly of the Great Gatsby. Faye Greener sounds like Daisy and both stories share the same kind of lust and has a certain kind of forbidden love affair. Tod Hackett gets caught up in the world of it all he becomes part of his painting the Burning of Los Angela's, waiting to die. The violence draws me back to Candide by Voltaire most disturbing viloent scenes carried out by humankind. The ending scene too is not a happily ever after and Tod does not get the girl.