John Updike, an American literary classic and writer, is quite inconsistent and contradictory in the sense that no one of his books resembles another. Rabbit, the central figure in Updike's novels, through his life demonstrates all of its burdens. In the first book, Rabbit has not yet risen to the middle class; he is a typical average American who has just finished college. His soul yearns to attain truly masculine freedom, he is drawn toward the horizon, weighed down by his wife with her base concerns and endless bottles, and so he gets in his car and drives toward the horizon.