Leor’s blog

 Lee Harvey Oswald character analysis in LIBRA       In Don DeLillo's LIBRA there is a lot going on while following Lee Harvey Oswald that it becomes easy to miss the insane amount of subplots revolving around Lee during his journey to assassinate president Kennedy. Throughout Lee's life he has always viewed himself as someone who will immortalize himself in history by being something greater than his time. However multiple times throughout the story, Lee continues to fail in achieving an act capable of immortalizing him in history. At first, Lee's desire to make sure no one takes him lightly overshadows a lot of other aspects about his character that aren't explored as much during the story; however upon further inspection everything Lee does comes back full circle to simultaneously make Lee significant and even more insignificant at the same time.       From his beginnings, Lee was constantly on the go from house to house so that him and hi...