What parallels does Diane Henningfield see between The Natural by Bernard Malamud and the myth of Gawain and the Green Knight?
Diane Henningfield says that The Natural is "only apparently about baseball?" What is the book actually about?
What parallels do you see between what Bernard Malamud has to say about about Roy Hobbs and what Joel Anderson says about Michael Jordan? Does this article deepen our understanding of the book? Why or why not?