Summary and Analysis of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Worth Books

Author:Worth Books
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worth Books
Published: 2017-05-09T20:42:47+00:00

Cast of Characters

The Chairman: The Chairman of the Committee for Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods at the University of Chicago oversaw (and initially denied) Phaedrus’s application for admission into their PhD program.

Chris: The narrator’s eldest son, who accompanies him on the long motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California and who suffers from psychosomatic stomachaches that the narrator fears might herald a descent into hereditary mental illness.

Bob DeWeese: Artist and teacher at Montana State University in Bozeman, friend of Phaedrus, whom the narrator barely remembers.

Gennie DeWeese: Wife of Bob DeWeese.

The Narrator: A forty-year-old technical writer, ostensibly the point of view of the author, but there is an omniscience at times that suggests he is meant to be a voice of greater authority.

Phaedrus: The narrator’s prior hyperrational alter ego or persona, named after an ancient Greek Sophist who appears in Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus and thought to have been annihilated by shock treatments when the Narrator suffered a mental breakdown.

John Sutherland: A friend of the narrator who accompanies the Narrator and Chris for much of the motorcycle journey. He drives a BMW motorcycle that he doesn’t care to maintain himself.

Sylvia Sutherland: John’s wife, who also accompanies the Narrator and Chris on the motorcycle trip.

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