Happiness Disastifaction

A Death in the Family by James Agee

The central action in this novel is the death of the father of James Agee, one Jay Follet, which he (the author) also uses to demonstrate the futility of life on earth. In creating this futility that is involved in earthly living the author creates the character of Jay Follet in such a way that gives the impression of a man who was full of virtues – love, faith, tenderness and innocence (Agee, 2008). However despite all these virtues he does not find any peace or happiness in the family simply because of his nagging wife– a devoted Christian with a strict following of its teaching, and the mother of Agee.     According to James Agee, the main reason for all the quarrels that existed in the family during his early childhood were their different perception of faith. According to Mary Follet, Agee mother, true happiness could only be gotten from believing in the Christ and constantly seeking his direction in everything through prayers and devotion, the Christian’s practices. Jay Follet on the other hand neither recognized religious nor sort it guidance in whatever he did, something that he considered better than following faith blindly like his wife Mary and his sister Hannah (Agee, 2008). James believed then that this quarrel is what consumed his early childhood, however he was shocked that after his exit (through death) he still could not get the peace and the happiness that he expected to get, which he at times imagined to be his right, this time though, due to the quarrels that began immediately after the death of his father between his mother and his Aunt, Hannah. This time Agee could not understand exactly what the beef was all about, if anything both of them were devout Christian, although from different denominations.

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