The genesis of tragic attitude in J.C. Oates’ early works (on the basis of the novel “Expensive people”)

The article focuses on the novel Expensive people representing J. C. Oates’ early period of her work. Characteristic features like tragic discourse, social criticism, sharp topicality are pointed out as some of those marking J. C. Oates’ prose at large. The author as well emphasizes the writer’s ability to make actual the existential problematics of the American reality in the second half of the 20th century.