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The Man with the Golden Arm is one of the first post-WWII era novels to document the difficulties soldiers experienced when readjusting to civilian life. Nelson Algren, the author, himself served in WWII as a medical corpsan, and he intended to write novels about experiences he had on the battlefield. After coming back to Chicago and observing how his fellow soldiers had trouble integrating into…
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The Man with the Golden Arm is one of the first post-WWII era novels to document the difficulties soldiers experienced when readjusting to civilian life. Nelson Algren, the author, himself served in WWII as a medical corpsan, and he intended to write novels about experiences he had on the battlefield. After coming back to Chicago and observing how his fellow soldiers had trouble integrating into…