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The following essay is a test paper I had to write for my advanced English class (foreign language class for me!!) in grade 12. Though I had not enough time to develop a really deep and completed characterization of the novel’s protagonist during the 90 minutes of the exam, I hope my paper will offer some useful impulses for those interested in the novel. Alan Sillitoe: Saturday and Sunday Morning A view on the protagonist Alan Sillitoe’s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a sensational success when first published in 1958, is nowadays widely considered as a modern classic. Being one of the most impressing descriptions of the English working class milieu through presenting realistic, close-to-life characters, it occurs as fascinating as ever since it was first sold in British bookshops. Understanding this important piece of world literature however means understanding its protagonist Arthur Seaton. Arthur Seaton is 23 years old at the beginning of the novel and due to his youth pre-sented as someone who cares about nothing but his own fun and pleasure. Working all day at a lathe in one of Nottingham’s many factories does not satisfy him and drives him to the pubs of his environment where he spends Friday a