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The article presents a literary criticism of the novel "It Looked Like Forever," by Mark Harris. Particular focus is given to the plot of the final book in Harris' tetralogy, wherein the protagonist Henry Wiggen struggles with the end of his career as a baseball player. Other topics explored include death in middle age, seasonal imagery, and fatherhood.

The article focuses on the popularity of the baseball novel "The Natural," by Bernard Malamud. Critics were attracted to the novel for its story about star baseball player, Roy Hobbs with allusions drawn from mythic sources including, Arthurian legend, the Bible, Homer, fertility myth, the myth of the hero and with central constructs from the work of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.